At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work ...
Surprisingly, they created a new language, built upon their own individual signs for thoughts, that even their teachers could not decipher at first. The basic language wiring was in the brain ...
BASIC, the programming language best known today for having the most "dialects" of derived programming languages, turned 60 ...
If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.
Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming ...