BASIC or Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a high-level programming language designed to provide easy access to computer facilities. Its developers John George Kemeny, the Dartmouth ...

In 1964, the computer programming language BASIC (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was first run by its inventors, Dartmouth College professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

In 1964, the computer programming language BASIC (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was first run by its inventors, Dartmouth College professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. In ...

In keeping with the conventions of the time, the language was given a catchy-sounding acronym: BASIC – Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. On May 1, 1964, just over sixty years ago, the ...

That’s where Gates and Allen came in. BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was a relatively simple programming language that had become popular in academic settings. Gates and ...

Just four years old at the time, the "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" was made to help students in nontechnical fields get started with computer programming.

And in keeping with documenting 40 year old technology [1], I'm documenting how to call assembly language subroutines for Extended Color BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). One ...

The same year, they created the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or Basic, a programming language designed for simplicity and ease of learning. Its design was revolutionary.

Kemeny, who later became Dartmouth’s 13th president, worked with Kurtz and undergraduate students to develop a novice-friendly and intuitive computer language called BASIC (the name was an acronym for ...

Long before the days of laptops and smartphones, Thomas E. Kurtz worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. Kurtz has died at 96.

The result was BASIC — short for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — which they first put to the test on the Dartmouth campus at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964.