(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ... first learn the basics. But he said the Hour of Code event, which tries to get kids ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week (December 9–15, 2013) the non-profit organization wants 10 million students in the US to spend at least 60 minutes learning how to code.

They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were ...

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

A non-profit organization called Code.org, founded by brothers ... that every student should learn the basics of computer programming. You don’t have to want to be a coder just to learn a ...

Dartmouth BASIC was a compiler, which meant that it converted your entire program in one fell swoop into machine code that the computer could understand, rather than line by line every time you ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program ... BASIC, engaging with a computer meant wrestling with cumbersome punch cards or mastering complex codes.

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer ... called BASIC. (The name was an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.) It was a high-level programming ...