In the digital age, exposing children to programming at an early age brings many benefits to logical thinking and creativity.

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

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 ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...

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 bought a ...

Fox News Channel announced a plethora of special live programming surrounding its coverage of the first Republican presidential primary debate on August 23. Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will ...

A task force set up in 2001 to investigate problems with the Post Office Horizon Systems Electronic Point of Sale Service (EPOSS) found poor coding practices and made a damning conclusion on its code ...

1 Department of Media Education, University of Education Lower Austria, Baden bei Wien, Austria 2 Linz School of Education – Department of STEM Didactics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, ...