Confident Coding, book review: A useful programming primer This guide to coding will get you started on the fundamentals, but may not take you as far as you expect.

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.

When I was a kid my dad bought me a bunch of Basic programming books and I would spend hours copying code line by line and having fun.<BR><BR>Does anybody know of good updated versions of these ...

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 ...