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 ...

Computer science involves much more than writing code. It blends technical knowledge —like programming, algorithms and data systems — with soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving.

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

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 ...

Wenley Jean Pierre, a native of Haiti, is one of 29 adult learners who recieved a $1,500 scholarship from First Literacy of ...

Vibe coding, or coding with AI, is growing in popularity, but engineers say you have to actually know how to code to do it ...

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not ...

Students in the Whiteside Area Career Center's welding, manufacturing and machining program are forging the skills, precision and confidence needed to blueprint their futures in the modern ...

Checking the tech specs can be handy when replacing a hardware component or troubleshooting a problem, and this guide will ...

How do you program a computer that doesn’t exist yet? In a new project, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...

Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd ...