People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...

Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. This is the BASIC source code as printed in BASIC Computer Games in 1978.

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 in a ...

BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very ...

Windows only: If you've never played around with programming before, this weekend is a perfect time to start. Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming ...

Before pushing back on what seemingly falls into the unthinkable category, check out the reasons why Lou Frenzel is saying that BASIC deserves another look. I must be kidding, right? No, I’m not. I’m ...

The BBC has a long history of teaching the world about computers. The broadcaster’s name was proudly displayed on the BBC Micro, and BBC Basic was the programming language developed especially for ...

There is a little-known but clearly successful app called Petit Computer for the Nintendo DSi (It’s available on the 3DS eShop, too) from developers SmileBoom. And now, there will soon be a “Mark III” ...