The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer ... BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language ... programming a computer involved ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid ... Analytical Engine is our best record of its programming potential. In it she outlines the fundamentals of computer programming, including data analysis ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of ... 60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

Computers can do amazing things — from basic laptops capable ... to know at least two or three programming languages, including proficiency in JAVA and C++.” Beyond classroom and experiential learning ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...