Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

Currently the BASIC source code must be typed on a VT100 Terminal program via serial (RS232) connection. So it is not possible to save the code, only interpret and run. Current Status: ...

Why Basic mattered. Chief among the mourners has been tech pundit and science fiction author David Brin, who decried Basic’s passing in a widely cited article, “Why Johnny Can’t Code ...

Today, most computer users don’t see raw BASIC code when they turn on their machines. ... Kemeny and Kurtz flipped the switch on the first BASIC program on May 1, 1964, at 4AM.

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...

When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did. But we've gone backwards since then, and most users now seem unable or ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

Seth Bling worked on an in-game BASIC code interpreter in Minecraft. Check out the result of two weeks of his hard work blending video game and coding tool.

More information: Joan Arnedo-Moreno et al, Programming Fun(damentals): Using commercial video games to teach basic coding to adult learners, Entertainment Computing (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom ...

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling ...

The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invited at Dartmouth College in 1964. Honoring the creation of BASIC.

Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft by sharing the Altair Basic source code that created the very foundation of the company.