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.

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive. Instead, BASIC lives on in the ...

Either programming a computer was exceptionally hard and ... In 1985 they published a book, Back to BASIC, which bemoaned the crudeness and inconsistency of Microsoft BASIC and other variants ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite ...

This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer ... came with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming language.

But, for many beginners from the mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1,000 worth of PC parts into a ...