(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ... first learn the basics. But he said the Hour of Code event, which tries to get kids ...

students and teachers participated in the second annual "Hour of Code," a global event that engages millions of people in learning basic computer programming. During the Hour of Code, students ...

They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week (December 9–15, 2013) the non-profit organization wants 10 million students in the US to spend at least 60 minutes learning how to code.

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ... At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program ... BASIC, engaging with a computer meant wrestling with cumbersome punch cards or mastering complex codes.

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...