These “TRY IT IN BASIC” exercises often take just a dozen or so lines of text. The aim is both to illustrate the chapter’s topic (e.g. statistics) and to offer a little taste of programming.

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 ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, BASIC continued its prominent role as a programming interface and quasi-operating system for popular home computers such as the Atari 800, TRS-80, Commodore VIC ...

Seth Bling worked on an in-game BASIC code interpreter in Minecraft. Check out the result of two weeks of his hard work blending video game and coding tool.

The world's getting more technological, and coding skills become increasingly sought-after skills. But basic coding classes won't do all students much good in the long-run.