A regular column about programming. Because if/when the ... But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the ...

At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ... mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC began to extend far beyond Dartmouth's campus.

Before BASIC, engaging with a computer meant wrestling with cumbersome ... The story of BASIC is not just about a programming language. It's about making technology accessible and comprehensible ...

"Many variants of the programming language appeared in the '70s and '80s, and BASIC became a standard that was essential to know in order to use a computer. In fact, BASIC became the basis for ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

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 ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

He gave us Basic, a programming language that enabled millions to engage with technology. Thomas Eugene Kurtz, a pioneer in computer science whose vision of accessible computing transformed ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...