Experiments in airborne BASIC—”buzzing” computer code over FM radio Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service.

Today, most computer users don’t see raw BASIC code when they turn on their machines. Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the ...

(Microsoft Photo) Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi explains that these kinds of block commands are how most computer programmers first learn the basics.

CAMDEN, Maine --The most basic computer code can reveal complex patterns in nature. Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science and creator of the Mathematica software system, captivated the ...

BASIC (or the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was a popular command-line computer programming language initially created in the mid-1960s, but it really found widespread ...