Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's ...

Out of the box Small Basic has only fifteen keywords to help new users quickly learn the core of the language and get them programming. Can't think of a pressing reason why you need to learn a ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved ... accelerate the development of Windows programs (keyword: rapid application development), that Visual Basic ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language ... to learn programming (though adults are encouraged to use it too). The language consists of just 15 keywords, but the ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language ... Still, the keyword was "easy." So, early developers kept using BASIC and porting it to one ...

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...

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 ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024. With the grant, Kemeny and his team opened up their BASIC prototype to everyone at ...

Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receive the attention in 2024 that it would have done in 1984 ...

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 ...