Instead, the basic building blocks of the language of computer code are just two numbers – zero and one. Computers still need to be able to distinguish between millions of different objects and ...

“We looked at languages and we both decided that ... a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it 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.