That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

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

BASIC brought coding out of the ivory towers, and thereby tilted the world on its axis. It’s hard to overstate how abstruse, before BASIC, most coding was.

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

What is Computer Programming? Computer programming is the process that professionals use to write code that instructs how a computer, application or software program performs. At its most basic, ...

In a world where children can use iPhones before toilets, organizers at Codefi are betting a familiarity with nuts-and-bolts coding will become only a more useful skill. So as part of their ...

More than 30 children gathered at the Summerlin Library Dec. 11, but it wasn’t to read books. They were there to learn computer coding from Jeremy Bruner of TechBrainiacs.

THERE’S MORE TO computer programming than figuring out what inscrutable words like “augop” and “del_stmt” mean. Sure, you’ll have to master the vocabulary, as you do with any foreign ...

Smartphone apps, desktop apps, and web apps are some of the best tools we have to get things done, express ourselves, and yes, sometimes have fun. You may have once thought programming was the ...

This computer programming app is so easy to use that even a kindergartener can do it. Researchers in Massachusetts have created a basic computer coding app that they say is the first designed ...

It helps children aged as young as five learn the basics of coding. Related: Should Computer Coding Be Considered a Foreign Language in School?