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 ...
The New York Times

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.
Wired

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 ...
Hackaday

The Famous Basic Computer Games Book Gets A 2021 Update

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 ...