We are always amused that we can run emulations or virtual copies of yesterday’s computers on our modern computers. In fact, there is so much power at your command now that you can run, say, ...

TIOBE Index for January 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent January’s TIOBE Index begins the year with familiar names still setting the pace, but the underlying ...

Abstract: Teaching programming to pre-university students has attracted a great deal of attention in the last years. The benefits of teaching programming before University have been investigated by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amir is Founder of AI unicorn Avathon & Boeing/SC JV, SkyGrid. Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

A narrow grassy lot sits empty amid rowhomes and businesses on the 700 block of Manor Street in Lancaster city’s southwest neighborhood. A year from now, local nonprofit Community Basics Inc. will ...

“I’m always telling my students to keep practicing,” says Dr. Marwan Shaban, professor and program manager of computer programming and analysis at Seminole State College of Florida. “You can’t learn ...

Research detects an increase in the confidence of students who play and recommends establishing certain didactic guidelines to reinforce the games' beneficial effect Both video games present a ...