Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

CRANFORD--The Cranford Public Library is once again offering Computer Basics for Beginners classes for senior citizens. Students from Cranford High School will teach senior citizens basic Internet ...

The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of academic training. NPR's ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KFOX14/CBS4) — Dona Ana Community College will host a slate of basic computer courses through summer, aimed at helping both job seekers and those who simply want to boost their ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

This may be the most minimal computer that we’ve ever seen running BASIC. Hackaday.io user [Kodera2t] has been working through the history of computing, so after his 4-bit CPU, he stepped up his game ...

Lemoore College is working to make learning more accessible for people in rural areas. For the last two months, Graciela Gonzalez Cruz has been spending her Tuesday and Thursday evenings learning ...