A junior high school math teacher who had bought a TRS-80 after one of his students brought in a BASIC programming manual, he did wonderful things with animation and sound effects in games such as ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

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.

SethBling has developed a BASIC interpreter that lets you compile and run simple programs and scripts within Mojang's world-building game. It boils down to using many, many command blocks, but it ...

The Fuze Code Studio, as seen on Nintendo Today, will let you write 2D and 3D games using Fuze BASIC, with access to the Joy-Con sensors and controls, along with a pack of included game graphics ...

The use of commercial video games helps students to learn basic programming Research detects an increase in the confidence of students who play and recommends establishing certain didactic ...

People making their own games can store them on SmileBoom’s servers and pass out download keys to other users so they can access and download the game. SmileBASIC is now in the Nintendo 3DS ...

Game Builder Garage will feature a Lesson Mode, where players can “learn the basic concept of visual programming in step-by-step, interactive lessons.” ...

Game Programming, taught by Dan Richter, will officially become a Career Tech Ed program for the 2013-14 school year, said Kent Bryson, CTE principal.

A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were essentially programmed as they were assembled, like a jigsaw puzzle with ...