Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC ... languages come in. In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming ... or book full of code ...

A regular column about programming ... accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

You might assume that a programming language whose primary purpose ... “We all know the result: books with titles like BASIC for the XYZ Computer. Ad nauseum.” As someone who grew up on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their ... mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming.

This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer ... with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming language.

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 ...