Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.
IEEE

Comparing the Effects of Instructor Manual Feedback and ChatGPT Intelligent Feedback on Collaborative Programming in China's Higher Education

Abstract: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) has gained increasing global attention as the field of large language models undergoes rapid development. Due to its human-like cognitive abilities, the ...
Hackaday

Was Action! The Best 8-Bit Language?

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

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 ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Esoteric Languages Challenge Coders to Think Way Outside the Box

All exist, among many others, in the world of esoteric programming languages, and Daniel Temkin has written a forthcoming book covering 44 of them, some of which exist and are usable to some ...

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

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