Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. See full article ...

Courtesy Dartmouth Library 1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic.

50 years after Basic, most users still can't or won't program anything When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did.

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 ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of BASIC, Steve Wozniak has written some memories about his first experiences with this popular language—and how he created his own BASIC from scratch for the ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of academic training.