Computer programming for kids could be the next big trend. That’s if the success of recent Kickstarter projects, including one aimed at teaching kids as young as three the basics of programming, is ...

This article was published 27/05/2019 (2461 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Two self-proclaimed geeks are celebrating coding and problem solving at a new summer camp for kids ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

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 ...

There was a time when you could type those words into any home computer and get it to say "Hello World," because virtually all of them came with BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

Being the only girl, coupled with being the only Hispanic student, in many of the computer science classes and programs Athena Coco Hernandez was in, was a lot. Don’t misunderstand, though. It wasn’t ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Computer programming for kids could be the next big trend. That’s if the success of recent Kickstarter projects, including one aimed at teaching kids as young as three the basics of programming, is ...