A junior high school math teacher who had bought a TRS-80 after one of his students brought in a BASIC programming manual, he did wonderful things with animation and sound effects in games such as ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling ...

SmileBASIC, the Nintendo 3DS application that lets users make games with BASIC programming language, is now on the Nintendo eShop.

Of the hundreds of noble efforts to teach kids to code, Fuze is one of them. Fuze has created its own programming language, Fuze BASIC, a riff on the classic BASIC programming language that was ...

The use of commercial video games helps students to learn basic programming Research detects an increase in the confidence of students who play and recommends establishing certain didactic ...

Game Builder Garage will feature a Lesson Mode, where players can “learn the basic concept of visual programming in step-by-step, interactive lessons.” ...

Game Programming, taught by Dan Richter, will officially become a Career Tech Ed program for the 2013-14 school year, said Kent Bryson, CTE principal.

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

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were essentially programmed as they were assembled, like a jigsaw puzzle with ...