On May 1st, 1964, two Dartmouth professors by the names of John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz debuted BASIC, a revolutionary programming language credited for expanding computer literacy outside the realm ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

プログラミング言語を教える人々の中には、「1つの言語を習得することができれば、新たな言語も簡単に習得できる」と主張する人が多く存在します。ところが、ミシガン大学で電気工学とコンピューターサイエンスの教授を務めるMark Guzdial氏はこの主張に ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...

現代のIT関係者の間で当たり前のように使われている「プログラミング言語」という言葉の来歴について、ノーザン・アイオワ大学でコンピューターサイエンス学部の学部長を務めるユージン・ウォリングフォード氏が、調査結果をまとめています ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...