We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never suspected it was something kids could do. But BASIC? Holy crap ... of our lives—from culture to business, science to design.

Despite the decline in its practical use, BASIC's legacy lives on through its influence on subsequent programming languages and its role in making computing accessible to a broader audience.

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it.

That honor went to COBOL if you were in business or FORTRAN if ... from the mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager ...

An early Dartmouth BASIC program, performing a simple math ... the DTSS and Dartmouth BASIC and sold them to business customers. Other computer companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation ...

Most famously, Bill Gates, whose computing life began when he devised a BASIC program to play noughts ... weren't a student - or employed by a big business - you would probably never even know ...

A version of the BASIC programming language derived from the original Dartmouth BASIC created by Kemeny and Kurtz. First developed by MAI Systems Corporation, it evolved into the BBx (Business ...

we can look back fondly on ‘the programming environment is the OS,’ a ton of BASIC programs, and typing in small programs found in the backs of computer magazines. It’s a whole new world ...

According to Dartmouth, here's what the program was: Dartmouth BASIC, designed by Kemeny and his colleague Thomas E. Kurtz, was one of the first easy-to-use computer codes, says Schofield ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer ... programming manual that came with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming ...