Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 ...
Concord Monitor

Thomas Kurtz, Dartmouth co-creator of computer language BASIC, has died

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The New York Times

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.
Newsweek

Viral Thread Shares Basic Computer Skills Users Were ‘Shocked’ Others Didn’t Know

Computers have been around for decades, but longevity hasn't resulted in everyone acquiring the basic set of computer knowledge. A Reddit thread discussing a lack of basic computer skills that ...