[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, ...

Designers Kenji Kaneko, Ted Chang and Matt Visiwig hosted Vibeathon on June 27. The hosts taught attendees how to use AI tools to produce code to build websites, apps and software. The people ...

Students type on Apple Inc. laptop computers during a coding class at the First Code Academy in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. About 2,500 students have taken courses at the First Code ...

One of my favorite examples of how to create new technology and gain business leverage from it comes from Paul Graham’s book Hackers and Painters. Graham is famous for co-creating Y Combinator as well ...

There's a new script available for Minecraft that allows users to actually utilize the Basic programming language within Minecraft. It utilizes a number of programming blocks that can interpret ...

Derek Sivers recently wrote a piece about how he believes everyone should learn basic programming, but where do you start? What school should you go to? What book is the best? What website will offer ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...

Coding is one of the most practical skills to have these days, and even if you’re not going to use it for professional purposes, having basic knowledge of coding is useful for navigating the 21st ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

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