In his new autobiography, the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his origins, and about how, in eighth grade, he ...

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.

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Four sounds like an awful lot of languages to learn for a beginner, but the idea is to get a broad understanding of programming and the basics down. As for which programming language to learn first?

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a colleague, Thomas Kurtz, with the goal of bringing computing closer to ...

A full two inches thick and nearly 800 pages long, The Book of R promises to teach you everything you need to be productive in using this language – that includes the basic syntax of the ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

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 ...

Happy birthday BASIC! It was my first programming language and, although I was too young to appreciate it, it helped seed the love for computers that I've carried through my entire life.

Started in '87 on an Atari ST. My first encounter with a programming language was with the infamous ST BASIC (a.k.a. The Text Adventure for BASIC-freaks). Luckily I quickly could get hands on GfA ...