The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did. But we've gone backwards since then, and most users now seem unable or ...

The descendants of slave owners are funding a basic income program in Louisiana that they view as a form of reparations.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Magnolia Mother's Trust will begin as a pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi, with 15 women, and aims to lift black mothers out of poverty.

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.

The Georgia program provides no-strings-attached cash to low-income Black women. One said she used the money to get a teaching certificate.