It was a concept developed at a university in the 1960s, but wasn’t a widely used part of programming languages until the 1990s. Basically, every language does it now,” says Hicks. Unlike companies, ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

But BASIC also flourished in the West, thanks in part to the fact that super-successful microcomputers, which had proved to be a hit in schools, already came equipped with the programming language.

I learned computer programming writing Basic on an Atari 400. Ahhh that chiclet keyboard, I developed muscles on my fingers. ••• 2 (2 / 0) Report 2 (2 / 0) R ...

Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with .NET. Designed for coding novices and children, the system is easy to learn ...

However, one class in seventh grade has become very important to me, as I use the skills I learned in that class every day of my life: That class was my typing class. I can still envision that ...