Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning ... in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's General Electric ...

Basically, Hamlet and Ophelia are “variables” to which numerical values get assigned. The nouns “Lord” and “King” each have a ...

BASIC wasn’t his only bête noire among programming languages ... so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer,” Ahl remembers. As with BASIC itself, BASIC Computer ...

This time around we will focus on graphical/visual programming languages. There aren't quite as many of these as text-based ...

Only twice in TIOBE Programming Index history has a language commanded such a high percentage of developers’ interest.

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language ... only 4 percent of professional developers will admit to using BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in ...

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.

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students ... “STOP” told the program to stop. At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 ...

marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language brought computer abilities to the non-technically trained masses. It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the ...

Note: This course description is only applicable for the Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate program ... Study fundamental concepts on which programming of languages are based, and execution models ...