Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of ...
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ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial — Kerbal Space Program lunar lander powered by 1980s hardware

Controlling a lunar lander using a 1980s home computer is not for the faint of heart, and this project shows how one intrepid ...
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Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
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How Bill Gates, the Altair 8800 and BASIC propelled me into the PC revolution

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...