;-) But still, I learned BASIC and also LOGO when I was a kid, I’m 36 now and program in Assembly and C++ for a small-medium online company, and recently got into the Arduino world.

Those skills are so basic, they probably just barely will qualify people for a decent job. What will separate job seekers from the competition will be basic programming ability and the thinking ...

Within a few years, BASIC became a standard part of college curriculum across numerous fields of study. Its intuitive nature also fueled the rise of home computing in the 70s and 80s.

The move from programming in BASIC (or LOGO at school) to MS fucking Word is a tragedy in modern civilisation. One sad cause of that, is that teachers are generally clueless about computers, and ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. heise online Logo heise+ entdecken ...

A version of the BASIC programming language derived from the original Dartmouth BASIC created by Kemeny and Kurtz. First developed by MAI Systems Corporation, it evolved into the BBx (Business ...

Altair Basic was developed by Gates, fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and programmer Monte Davidoff. The trio reportedly coded “day and night for two months” in 1975.

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 ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

Hadi Partovi, co-founder of Code.org, estimates that 1.4 million programming jobs will be needed over the next decade while current projections are for only 400,000 graduates in the field.