This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ... mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC began to extend far beyond Dartmouth's campus.

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the ... But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the ...

Before BASIC, engaging with a computer meant wrestling with cumbersome ... also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computers can do amazing things — from basic laptops capable of ... For example, you can choose to earn an online computer programming certificate. BLS noted that certifications exist for specific ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

Basic — an acronym for Beginner’s ... developed by International Business Machines Corp., was the dominant language of ...

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 ...