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.

Either programming a computer was exceptionally hard and ... In 1985 they published a book, Back to BASIC, which bemoaned the crudeness and inconsistency of Microsoft BASIC and other variants ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive. Instead, BASIC lives on in the ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...

Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer ... In Back to Basic: The History, ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All ... they were difficult to use. At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

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

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 ...