It was a simple VBScript program that allowed 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov to grab 100 million plus credit card numbers from Target and Neiman Marcus stores. Those 100 million credit card holders are ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in ...

Well, I didn't USED to be a novice. In fact, I have over 30 years of program development under my belt.<BR><BR>I worked mostly in legacy COBOL, C and C# back in DOS6 days, and most recently ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

Programs close programsSequences of instructions for a computer. are designed using common building blocks. These building blocks, known as programming concepts (or programming constructs), form the ...

[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, ...