BASIC was designed to make programming accessible to beginners and people outside specialist computing disciplines.

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"BASIC was designed to make programming accessible to beginners and people outside specialist computing disciplines."

Dartmouth's historical account explains how John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed BASIC to broaden access to computing and make programming approachable to students. The institutional history supports the section's treatment of BASIC as an entry point into software development. The source page was last updated in 2018.

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Source title BASIC Begins at Dartmouth

Source authors Dartmouth College

Source year 2018

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