Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...
Citizen's Voice

Students in 9th and 10th grade can learn programming through free class

Students in 9th and 10th grade in Luzerne County can learn the basics of computer programming for free through the Keystone Coding & Careers initiative this spring. Courses will be offered virtually ...
NBC DFW

Pre-schoolers learn the basics of computer programming in Cedar Hill ISD

They’re the youngest group of scientists you’ve likely met, in Lashcoka Thompson’s Pre-K classroom at Plummer Elementary in Cedar Hill. Why am I calling a group of four year old's scientists? Well, ...
Foster's Daily Democrat

Go and No-Go: The basics of computer programming

Now that Labor Day weekend is over, let’s get back to a bit of work. That is to finish this fuel oil level alarm so it functions flawlessly. As I wrote two weeks ago before I got a vicious summer cold ...
Electronic Design

50 Years of BASIC Programming

Can you believe it? The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month. As you may know, BASIC was created in 1964 by Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz as a system to ...
Technical

Here’s a chance to learn programming basics with Girl Develop It

If you’re a woman looking to learn more about the basics of computer programming, Girl Develop It’s upcoming meetup on Feb. 10 is for you. The access-minded web dev education outfit is hosting “Intro ...
Wired

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...