Experiments in airborne BASIC—”buzzing” computer code over FM radio Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service.

Today, most computer users don’t see raw BASIC code when they turn on their machines. Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the ...

CAMDEN, Maine --The most basic computer code can reveal complex patterns in nature. Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science and creator of the Mathematica software system, captivated the ...

The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of academic training.