I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

At the age of 14, I landed my first summer job teaching coding to kids. I hopped on the bus for the half-hour ride to my school, where I taught elementary school children how to write very simple ...

HANOVER — On Wednesday, Dartmouth College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of BASIC, a computer language created at Dartmouth that has gone on to become the world’s most widely-used computer ...

Computers play a huge role in our everyday lives, and now more than ever, it's important that educators provide computer basics for kids, what computers can do and how technology can be helpful. From ...

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language. Atwood, on his blog Coding Horror, miffed by the "everyone ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

Like many programmers, the author is self-taught, but we need meaningful learning experiences to feed the huge future demand for coders I grew up in Lake County, Fla. When I was six years old, I was ...

Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn't for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language. Atwood, on his blog Coding Horror, miffed by the "everyone ...