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 ...

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 ...

1964年(昭和39年)5月1日は、プログラミング言語のひとつであるBASICが世界で初めて命令の実行に成功した日であり、BASICは誕生から50年という記念すべき日を迎えました。「INPUT」や「PRINT」など、自然な言葉に近い平易な表現を用いることでコンピューター ...

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 ...

コンピュータが非常に高価で大型であったため研究所や企業など一部の限られた場所でのみ使われていた1970年代半ばに、個人でも所有できるほど安くて、小さいコンピュータ「Altair 8800」が発売されて、爆発的な人気を呼び、PC(パーソナルコンピュータ)時代 ...

A new DSiWare title gives users the ability to create computer programs using the BASIC programming language. Not only can users create their own programs, but it also comes pre-loaded with a few ...

AVR microcontrollers can do pretty much anything nowadays. Blinking LEDs, handling sensor inputs, engine control modules, and now, thanks to [Dan], a small single chip BASIC computer with only ten ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, the share of ITES companies to our economy has been rising consistently. Though experts boast of the country's software prowess and there is a steady increase in the number of ...