Harvard University is now offering free online Computer Science courses, making Ivy League education accessible to all. These ...

Bill Atkinson, who worked at Apple from 1978—two years after its founding—to 1990, died on June 5 after battling pancreatic ...

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 ...

But the choice is not that simple. “For a very long time in computer science, a lot of people who work in programming languages have had the ostensible goal of [creating] the ‘one language to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...