Und dank Basic konnten sie eigene Programme schreiben.“ Zu den Highschool-Kids, die damals BASIC für ihre ersten Schritte in der Computer-Welt nutzten, gehörte der junge Bill Gates.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, BASIC continued its prominent role as a programming interface and quasi-operating system for popular home computers such as the Atari 800, TRS-80, Commodore VIC ...

It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never suspected it was something kids could do. But BASIC? Holy crap.

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: C/C++ Introduction to software engineering. Basic data types, variables, computer arithmetic, expressions, parentheses. Basic I/O – cout, cin. Introduction to classes – ...

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.

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. The … ...