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BASIC ruled the '80s. Here's why Python quietly became the new gateway to coding

From graphing calculators to interactive notebooks, Python eases you into programming, no GOTOs required.
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10 PRINT: a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program

80s kids became coders with ease because 8-bit computers booted into a simple dev environment running BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough ...
Wired

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
The Guardian

Thank you, Basic: developers remember 50 years of creative coding

The programming language inspired a generation to start coding in minutes. Developers explain what it taught them about creativity Baby we were born to RUN: celebrating 50 years of Basic It is 50 ...
ZDNet

BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse

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