The best computer programming books are the ones, which don’t just show you the basics, but explain the idea behind it. As a beginner, it can be difficult for you to decide, which one to go for.

Graduate research often requires you to perform long and repetitive tasks on a computer. You spend hours renaming and resizing images, looking for specific text across multiple Word documents, or ...

7 Facts about BASIC Programming Language. The first version of BASIC was released on May 1, 1964. The creation of BASIC gave way to what was the first real form of personal computer; The BASIC ...

Dr. Cheryl Frederick. Dr. Cheryl Frederick, executive director of STEM programs at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), said computer programming is a collaborative process, with a variety of ...

BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

BASIC revolutionized computing by making computers feel less institutional, and more like a tool the average human could use. Harry McCracken at TIME explains this shift far better than I ever ...