The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

BASIC Beginnings Sooner or later, it was inevitable that someone would come up with a programming language aimed at beginners.

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 ...

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 ...

Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with .NET.

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