That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

Mark Gibbs explores Scratch and StarLogo, programming systems implements the metaphor for Google's forthcoming App Inventor ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

BASIC began to be used in schools everywhere. Computers like the Research Machines 380Z and BBC Micro meant that students could start learning a few programming basics, without any need for access ...

Posing a simple programming challenge (often referred to as a FizzBuzz problem) is a common strategy, and it’s one that interviewers and job-seekers should both understand.

[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to T… ...

This is the first part of a recurring series in which I break down simple programming concepts for journalists, learning as I go.

The study showed that by programming implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, to only kick in when a heart rate rises above 200 beats per minute reduced the number of so-called ...