In an increasingly digitized and connected environment, the demand for computer programmers continues to grow and so does the ...

Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were developed by those ... education to be at the forefront of training students in computer programming.

For instance, there’s a famous one-line BASIC program for the Commodore 64 computer: That generates a random, maze-like pattern that goes on forever, or at until you press Ctrl-C. It’s so ...

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 ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite ...

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...