That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

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 ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...