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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic ... example of this is automatic memory management, or garbage collection. It was a concept developed at a university in the 1960s, ...