DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: C/C++ Introduction to software engineering. Basic data types, variables, computer arithmetic, expressions, parentheses. Basic I/O – cout, cin. Introduction to classes – ...

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 ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were essentially programmed as they were assembled, like a jigsaw puzzle with ...

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 ...

Learning how to write computer programs can teach kids far more about logic, mathematics and self-discipline than any junior-high and high-school classes. And today’s adolescents and pre ...