That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

The difference is that the Boeing 777 computer gets thousands of data pieces through a multitude of sensors, and many decisions are made constantly and compounded manner.

Microsoft wants to turn kids' love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Sphero’s launched a cute mini-car robot that teaches kids about the basics of computer programming.

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

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. Throughout the ...

As I wrote two weeks ago before I got a vicious summer cold and couldn’t write for the last week, a computer consists of input sensor of whatever you want to measure, and comparator that ...