BASIC: The First User-Friendly Computer Programming Language
By jbottero
(2025-06-16)
State of New Hampshire Historical Marker located along State Route 120.
In 1964, Dartmouth College math professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created one of the first user-friendly programming languages, called Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC made computer programming accessible to college students and, with the later popularity of personal computers, to users everywhere. It became the standard way that people all over the world learned to program computers, and variants of BASIC are still in use today.