Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created ... contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair ...

To commemorate the special occasion, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has joined the fray and shared the source code that ... an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

A regular column about programming ... 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 versions of ...

It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of Code (offered by ... that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity ...

A version of the BASIC programming language from Microsoft specialized ... Up until VB 5, the Visual Basic compiler only converted the source code written by the programmer into an intermediate ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...