[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny ...

Because if you want to give young students a grounding in how computers actually work, there's still nothing better than a little experience at line-by-line programming. Only, quietly and without ...

This type of ad hoc programming was the design goal of Dartmouth Basic (Beginner's All-purpose ... when no coding is required. You can, for example, perform a lot of simple world processing ...

Knowing how to program a ... Kiewit brochure was personal computing. It’s just that the term hadn’t been invented yet. Even the concept was still audacious. Dartmouth BASIC did everything ...

which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner in mind: more specifically, kids who want to learn programming (though ...

Programming them required deep mathematical ... raising concerns that human programmers may be sidelined. But BASIC's legacy as the spark that ignited personal computing for the masses will ...