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 ...

But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always ... you could tell the computer to suddenly GOTO line 25, for example. For a newbie coder, this was an easy ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...