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This book is edited by Li Hui and Chen Yanyan, with associate editors Yang Yu, Gao Yong, Zhang Qiaosheng, Bi Ye, and Liu Dengzhi. It is rich in content, covering 32 theories and 32 practical cases, ...

According to the TIOBE Programming Community index, the following are the top 10 programming languages in August 2025. Python: A general-purpose programming language commonly used for back-end ...

This Research to Practice Full Paper presents a study on the difficulties 46 Biomedical Engineering students show in a particular topic of the first programming course, the loop topic. Students' ...

Design and application of teaching cases based on heuristic teaching in C programming language curriculums—taking the loop structure for an example ...

Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is important to note that programming languages existed before computers were developed. It was a way ...

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a colleague, Thomas Kurtz, with the goal of bringing computing closer to students.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers.

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