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BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) [1] is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers.
The language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by Dartmouth mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates.
It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first version of BASIC published by Microsoft as well as the first high-level programming language available for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. During the home computer craze of the late-1970s and early-1980s, BASIC was ported to and supplied with many home computer designs.
Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50...
The first version of BASIC was released on May 1, 1964. The creation of BASIC gave way to what was the first real form of personal computer. The BASIC language was initially based on FORTRAN II, with some influences from ALGOL 60 and additions to make it suitable for time-sharing systems like DTSS.
Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it...
Kids who were lucky or privileged enough (or both) to gain access to computers that ran BASIC—the VIC-20, the Commodore 64, janky Sinclair boxes in the UK—immediately started writing games, text...
BASIC, computer programming language developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid 1960s. One of the simplest high-level languages, with commands similar to English, it can be learned with relative ease even by schoolchildren and novice programmers.
50 years of the computer language BASIC. Fifty years ago, mathematicians John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire introduced BASIC, a new language for programming computers.
The Birth of BASIC The BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language was born in 1964 at the Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (USA), where it was developed by John G. Kemeney (1926-93) and Thomas E. Kurtz (192.