The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview with our editor-in-chief earlier this year. "Before Office, Windows 95 ...

The plan was to create software that would allow Altair 8800 owners to develop their own programs using the easy-to-learn BASIC programming language. As such, Gates and Allen decided to develop a ...

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Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ... such as Python and JavaScript, have taken on roles similar ...

This code launched the empire. Writing in his bog Gates said: “Before there was Office, Windows 95, Xbox, or AI, there was Altair BASIC,” Gates reminded readers as he reminisced about those ...

As the need for coding ... with Python, the bundle features several courses looking at more advanced concepts and common use cases. Among the concepts explored are flow controls, basic and ...

In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time.