60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

Hello, all forum users of Ars, I have been drawing educational comics for explaining programming concepts to newcomers. I've only gotten up to very basic concepts, but I hope to get to more complex ...

Programming skills are becoming increasingly important as more and more businesses and educational institutions move online. It's no longer just for software developers and IT experts, but for ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...