For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

This article is a migration to note of an article I posted around 2020 on an educational blog for parents called "What If You ...

Introduction"Since AI can write code for me, isn't there no point in studying programming anymore?""Is it worth it for a ...

In the era of developing science and technology, it is a must you have knowledge about these things else you will lag behind the others. Where Artificial Intelligence has taken up almost all the work ...

I have a specific problem that needs a solution. While it would be possible to call in someone more knowledgeable, I think this is a good pretext to actually learn some programming myself. I have a ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...