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At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back correct answers to their simple programs, time-sharing and BASIC were born. Those innovations made computing accessible to all Dartmouth students and faculty, and soon after, to people across the nation and the world.
Dartmouth's BASIC at 50 anniversary celebration was held yesterday, which included the public premier of a documentary on the history and impact of BASIC.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 01 2014, @07:13PM
I think giving a quick crash-course in TI-BASIC would help a lot in encouraging future programmers. True, the language itself is somewhat horrific, but if we're talking high school the students are required to already have a graphing calculator anyway, and they'll jump at the chance to "cheat" in math class (just clear their memory before tests...if they can write the program during the time limit, why stop them? And that means they probably know more or less how to do the work by hand anyway).
But maybe that's just bias, since that's how I got started :-)
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