In a recent survey of more than 1100 astronomers, almost half have received little or no software training, despite 90% writing at least some of their own code. Jon Cartwright reports on the latest ...

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 ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on GitHub. Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 ...