I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...
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. The ...
BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very ...
Eric Redmond, the creator of Computer Science for Babies, wants to teach young children about ones and zeros before they’re even one year old. Boolean Logic for Babies, the first book in Redmond’s ...