Abstract
There's life in the old dog yet. The original computer language designed to help students learn programming was Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC. Although invented in 1964 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, BASIC had its heyday in the 1980s, when it was hardwired into the microcomputers finding their way into people's homes by the million. Then it became unfashionable, derided for its limitations—and now languages like MIT's Scratch are the go-tos for teaching children. But, as the April winners of the annual BASIC 10 Liner Contest show, in the right hands the language can still be a remarkably expressive tool.
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