The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.

Even the BASIC name itself stands for "Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." It was first used today to run the computer systems at the college.

The Clark Public Library will offer a series of beginning and intermediate computer classes beginning in January. The Beginner’s Microsoft Word will take place each Monday from 2-3 p.m ...

The Westminster Public Library is offering free beginner’s computer classes. The classes, which can be scheduled for a time at the learner’s convenience, include lessons in how to use a mouse ...

It was also a computing culture that spread throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and beyond—through its own network, through the national recommendations made via the President’s Scientific Advisory ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96.