But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science ... the need for more complex programming languages surfaced. Academia and business moved away from BASIC ...

Speaking fondly of “the good old days,” upon request for a comment on programming in the ’80s, Turbo ... BASIC interpreters of the time were pretty easy to use, but programs ran very slow ...

For instance, there’s a famous one-line BASIC program for the Commodore 64 computer: That generates a random, maze-like pattern that goes on forever, or at until you press Ctrl-C. It’s so ...

But, for many beginners from the mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming ... never mind master, C. In their day though, BASIC and DTSS democratized ...

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.

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...