I'd like to take a brief moment to introduce you to a small project at Microsoft that has received very little press: Small Basic. Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up […] ...

This course is a vital opportunity to familiarize yourself with the prerequisite knowledge you’ll need to complete almost any other programming or software development course. Here, you’ll learn ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s brief surge.

While we’ve walked you through the basics of picking a programming language that’ll suit your aspirations, sometimes an interactive quiz is more fun than reading. Best Programming Language for Me is ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024. With the grant, Kemeny and his team opened up their BASIC prototype to everyone at Dartmouth, ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

The programming language BASIC celebrates its 50th birthday today. Long before spreadsheets or iPhone calculators were a boring staple of everyday existence, PC users (and the “personal” part of that ...