Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

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 ...

Top institutions like Harvard, Google, MIT, and IIT Bombay are offering free beginner coding courses in 2025. Covering Python, Java, R, C, and even Scratch for school educators, these courses help ...

Before the Olive Garden had all the salad and breadsticks you could want, before Chili’s sang of their “baby back, baby back, baby back,” there was The Ground Round. Once a household name in the ...

Two tax breaks for Nachi were terminated by the Greenwood City Council in the aftermath of a division’s closure. On Monday, the Greenwood City Council unanimously voted 8-0 — with member Michael ...

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started. At the bottom of ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

The entrance to Nachi America Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Greenwood is seen in 2013. The company’s Nachi Technology division is set to close. Daily Journal File Photo A Greenwood manufacturing ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.