60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

Over the past few years, the share of ITES companies to our economy has been rising consistently. Though experts boast of the country's software prowess and there is a steady increase in the number of ...

Computers speak binary—long strings of 1s and 0s that tell them what to do. Some people can speak binary, too. As the joke goes: "There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand ...

Two former computer-science professors from New York University say education in their field is failing to teach basic skills. In an essay from The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Robert B.K.

CRANFORD--The Cranford Public Library is once again offering Computer Basics for Beginners classes for senior citizens. Students from Cranford High School will teach senior citizens basic Internet ...

Picture a coder. No, not the nerdy kind with big glasses who sits alone at lunchtime with a humming laptop and a neglected, half-eaten sandwich. Think instead of the coder who wears cool suits, has ...

This may be the most minimal computer that we’ve ever seen running BASIC. Hackaday.io user [Kodera2t] has been working through the history of computing, so after his 4-bit CPU, he stepped up his game ...