Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of ...
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Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
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Creating Awesome Games with 10 Lines of BASIC

The object of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest is to create a complete computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC. One of the first programming languages that my peers and I used was BASIC, which stands for ...