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 ...

The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer ... BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

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

Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working with a cloud server’s API, the task relies heavily on a programming language. What you may not know about computer programming is ...

"So, what programming ... Another language worth mentioning is BASIC. Originally from 1964 BASIC took off when it found its way onto almost every Personal Computer from the 70s and 80s and two ...

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.

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

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 ...

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 ...