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 checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon.

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 ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, BASIC was increasingly displaced by more powerful and structured programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code.

They aren't like traditional languages; they do not have a seemingly endless list of vocabulary and grammatical rules; instead, the rules of computer programming are concise and simple.

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation.