BASIC
- BASIC also known as"Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" is a programming language invented in 1964
- Basic was very important in the history of computers because it is the simplest and most popular programing language. It was so simple this was whats used to teach students about programming concepts. it became so popular a verson was develped by bill gates and was used in his first microsoft products
- The predecessor of the BASIC is the FORTRAN II, JOSS programing languages
- The inventor was John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz
- A fun fact about BASIC is that almost all computers in the 1970' had basic installed by default in them and the people that coded basic worked at and designed it at Dartmouth College.