The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

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

More information: Joan Arnedo-Moreno et al, Programming Fun (damentals): Using commercial video games to teach basic coding to adult learners, Entertainment Computing (2024).

BLACKSBURG, Va. – A Virginia Tech professor is changing the way coding looks, using video games to teach kids as young as elementary school how to code. Most school-aged children don't have the ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC.

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Black Annex may look complex to play, but just imagine programming it—with the ancient QBASIC language. One brave indie game developer did just that.

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.