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 ...
Yahoo

Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1980—years before the internet existed

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...
Fast Company

Weaving, coding, and the secret history of ‘women’s work’

Ahree Lee’s ‘Pattern : Code’ honors the history of women in the connected fields of crafts and computer science. Before the fast-fashion business model made it possible for clothing companies to churn ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

Can Kansas Schools Teach Computer Coding Without Eating Up Time For Math And Science?

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...