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Around 1971, he created BASIC versions of two games that had originally been written in DEC’s FOCAL language, Hammurabi (in which the player governed ancient Sumeria) and Lunar Lander (exactly ...

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. The … ...

QBASIC is a software interpreter for the BASIC programming language that showed up in 1991, and basic it is. Here’s a little video of a game created by IBM to show off the awesome power of ...

YouTube user SethBling has created a groundbreaking BASIC programming language interpreter within the Minecraft game. This innovative project utilizes command blocks to write a BASIC interpreter ...

A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to teach your kids basic programming skills.

Gamify your algorithms. “Programming” in board games—where you lay down instructions in advance and then execute them in order—has shown up in everything from 1984’s RoboRally to 2014 ...

Launched on the 19th, Petit Computer is a new game that actually lets you write programs in BASIC directly on your Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo DSi. In other words, if you own either console, all you ...

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 ...

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 ...