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 ...

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, ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

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

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.

A coding class would also help them gain a greater understanding of how technology is designed and how software serves as the medium for triggering all of a device’s capabilities.

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.

China should include computer programming in its basic education curriculum to support its ambitions of becoming a tech powerhouse in areas such as artificial intelligence, NetEase founder and ...

More than 100 Huntley High School students have spread their coding wings since Dec. 8, which coincides with the start of national Computer Science Education week.

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.