Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

Hands-on experience is the most direct way to get better at programming. Watching videos or reading tutorials only gets you ...

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 ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Write code in the corresponding src/ file for each programming task. Do not change file names — tests depend on them. Commit and push your changes to GitHub. Questions (Do not use conditionals or ...

Lessons learned: Going back to mortgage finance basics With Egypt's demand for affordable housing growing and a thirst for the development of the mortgage industry, the American Chamber of Commerce ...