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.

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 ...

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.

was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was intended to be a computer language for generalists to use to unlock the power of the computer ...

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 ...

marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language brought computer abilities to the non-technically trained masses. It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...