Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning ... Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964 ... mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming.

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer ... program to stop. At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall on the Dartmouth campus, the time-sharing system and ...