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JavaScript was invented in the mid-1990s as a programming language that could run inside a web page and make it interactive, says Kyle Simpson, director of web futures at Getify Solutions, which ...

Earlier this month, ITworld blogger Matthew Mombrea wrote an interesting post about which programming language is the best one to learn first (his choice: Java or C#). Not surprisingly, it generated ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...