In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” (Those tell the computer to move its accumulator, a crucial region of memory ...

Because BASIC is the first language that many computer scientists learn, it has been, for generations, a mother tongue of technologists.

BBC Basic did a lot of things, and often quite well. During the early 1980s, it extended the BASIC languages with easier loop structures, like IF/THEN/ELSE, and ran faster than Microsoft's version.

Learn basic computer skills at the North Ridgeville Library Published: Jan. 08, 2009, 6:15 p.m. By Sara Hill, Sun News ...

BAY CITY -- Learn basic computer skills from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Wirt Public Library, 500 Center Ave. This three-hour classes teaches basic operations of a computer, how to use ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-pioneer of the BASIC programming language, dies at 96. In the 1960s, he and John Kemeny developed BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, transforming computer access and ...

Business Nation & World Obituaries Technology Thomas E. Kurtz, a creator of BASIC computer language, dies at 96 Nov. 20, 2024 at 7:15 am Updated Nov. 20, 2024 at 8:15 am By Kenneth R. Rosen ...