This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

BASIC revolutionized computing by making computers feel less institutional, and more like a tool the average human could use. Harry McCracken at TIME explains this shift far better than I ever ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College.That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

It’s also a great way to get familiar with homebrew computing and the BASIC programming language! Posted in Microcontrollers Tagged ATmega 1284P, AVR, basic, microconroller, tiny BASIC.

It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the early 1960s computing landscape. At that time, computers were highly specialized black boxes confined to corporate, government, ...

Most famously, Bill Gates, whose computing life began when he devised a BASIC program to play noughts and crosses. The hardware was still primitive, of course. In particular, users interacted with ...

Adapted from A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin. Out now from Harvard University Press. In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming ...

For those of us old enough to remember the beginnings of the microcomputer revolution, we can look back fondly on ‘the programming environment is the OS,’ a ton of BASIC programs, and t… ...

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 propelled generations ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

Although computer programming has evolved in the years since Dr. Kurtz and Kemeny introduced their language, BASIC is “still very much alive” today, said Dag Spicer, senior curator at the ...