The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

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 ...

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.

It’s not every day someone returns a 40-year-old overdue library book. They checked the system. My account had probably been ...

Software Tech Culture programming BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding The language that paved the way for ...

To get the basic coding skills to go from beginner to early programmer, Shaw recommends learning four different languages: My current method for training up beginners is to make them learn the ...

The text assumes that readers already have an understanding of basic computer science principles (how to write a correct sequential program, the basics of algorithmic complexity, and the like), and ...