Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

A regular column about programming ... computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages ... course that will utilize teaching languages to help students get a better foundational ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC ... Code celebrated its 60th birthday on May 1, marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language ...

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 ...