BASIC, as we computer nerds all know ... And because the process of conceiving a program, then writing and debugging the code, is the intellectual equivalent of jogging five miles a day.

“Microsoft’s BASIC was much more fundamental than CBASIC,” says Eubanks. “It appeared on every single computer. If you got your TRS-80, you could fire it up and write a little program to p ...

We’d heard about computer programming, of course ... more modern styles of writing and ran more speedily. BASIC still lives on these days—itself modernized, with GOTO (mostly) banished ...

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to write computer software ... demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics of computer programming,” Apple’s website says.

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite ...

Last year, Obama delivered a YouTube speech to promote Computer Science Education Week, but didn't write ... one hour of programming and showing them that anyone can learn the basics.

Why Write About Coding? Vee, 40, said she represents the demographic that was turned away from computer science. “I learned BASIC [programming language] in elementary school,” she said. “Then I hit ...