Extractions: BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages . Originally devised as an easy-to-use tool, it became widespread on home microcomputers in the , and remains popular to this day in a handful of heavily evolved dialects. BASIC's name, coined in classic, computer science tradition to produce a nice acronym , stands for B eginner's A ll-purpose S ymbolic I nstruction C ode Basic English "). Several versions of the popular Jargon File once claimed that BASIC is a backronym created in the 1970s (recent versions have corrected this). Evidence from the original Dartmouth BASIC manual (1964) show this to be untrue, but numerous online dictionaries and reference works on the Internet have now proliferated the earlier Jargon File's error. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 10 External links Prior to the mid- , computers were highly expensive tools used only for special-purpose tasks, which ran a single "job" at a time ( batch processing ). During the 1960s, however, computer prices started to drop to where even small companies could afford them, and their speed increased to the point they often sat idle, without jobs to run.
Extractions: CREATIVE COMPUTING VOL. 10, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1984 / PAGE 171 Daily Free Software Picks Structured programming in Basic; part 4: ANSI Basic, Macintosh Basic, and True Basic. Arthur Luehrmann. Structured Programming In Basic Part 4: ANSI Basic, Macintosh Basic, and True Basic The first three articles in this series (May, June, and July, 1984) introduced the main ideas of structured programming: (1) the top-down method of planning a program and (2) the use of three types of formal control blocks to handle all problems of program logic. These powerful ideas were developed there for users of the dialects of Basic currently available on nearly all personal computers. The final two articles in the series show how these same structured programming concepts can be expressed even more simply in the new generation of Basics just beginning to appear on personal computers. Basic: A Blessing and a Curse It is amazing how often in popular computer magazines one reads statements claiming that Basic first appeared in the early 70's, that its design was limited by the small memories available in the first microcomputers, that it is inherently an interpreted, rather than compiled, language. None of these claims is true. Basic celebrated its 20th birthday on May 1 of this year. John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, then and now professors of mathematics at Dartmouth College, aided by a small group of undergraduates, planned and implemented Basic in the early 60's, when the microcomputer was undreamed of and the minicomputer was still years in the future. Basic was designed to run on the only thing around: the mainframe computer. The problem back then was not so much limited memory as limited time. The Dartmouth team had also created the first educational time-sharing system.
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Extractions: Early versions such as IBM A-Basic, Microsoft GWBasic (Gee Whiz!) and a myriad of variations usually came bundled with Operating Systems and the many individual computer designs which preceded today's relatively few popular standards. They were characterised by the numbered lines system with strictly one instruction per line, as with Assembler, reflecting the programmers' view of the code as being a linear sequence of instructions at consecutive addresses in memory. Since it is inevitably necessary to insert extra code as a program is written it was usual to number lines in tens so that several new ones could be inserted between consecutive lines. Periodically, automatic renumbering could be invoked to restore the even (10) gaps throughout the program. Early Basics came on audio tapes, coded into the operating system or on 180 or 360 kB floppies. My copies are on 360s but I no longer have access to a 360 floppy drive. I'm not alone. The general thrust of instruction words was usually obvious, at least to English speakers, but the manual (remember those?) was an invaluable companion for revealing the subtleties of usage. The now-despised "GOTO linenumber" was the way to obtain looping code, with "IF ... THEN GOTO ..." as the escape route. Subroutines were usually placed at the end of the code and reached by "GOSUB linenumber" and exited with "RETURN linenumber". When linenumber happened to be 19480, it was difficult to maintain an overall view of your own program, let alone someone else's. Automatic renumbering had to cater for the jumps so that the operating sequence was maintained.
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Extractions: Orlando Baiocchi, Institute of Technology, (253) 692-4727 Baiocchi comes to UWT from the State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) in Utica-Rome, N.Y., where he was dean of the School of Information Systems and Engineering Technology and professor of electrical engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University College London. He replaces former Institute director Larry Crum, who is stepping down from the position but will stay on at the Institute as a professor of Computing and Software Systems. Baiocchi said he was attracted to the Institute of Technology because it poses a number of challenges. These include preparing to educate freshmen and sophomores for the first time. This spring, the state Legislature voted to allow UWT, UW Bothell and other upper-division universities to admit freshmen and sophomores beginning in 2006. The challenge is a familiar one to Baiocchi: in 2003, SUNYIT went through the same transition. He said it was difficult, but rewarding. One way to increase the number of students is to broaden the curriculum and offer more degree options, he said.
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Extractions: TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The developers, members of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional program which recognizes influential members of the developer community, claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers that have not been trained in newer languages. Microsoft said it will end standard support for Visual Basic 6 at the end of this month, ending free incident support and critical updates. Both services will be available for a fee for another three years. But MVPs hope Microsoft will reconsider not just VB6's support options, but will continue to develop the language alongside its newer Visual Basic.Net.
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Extractions: home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages . Originally devised as an easy-to-use programming language, it became widespread on home microcomputers in the , and remains popular to this day in a handful of heavily evolved dialects. It was devised in by Profs. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College BASIC's name, coined in classic, computer science tradition to produce a nice acronym , stands for B eginner's A ll-purpose S ymbolic I nstruction C ode , tied to the name of an unpublished paper by the language's co-inventor, Thomas Kurtz (the name thus having no relation to C.K. Ogden's series " Basic English "). Several versions of the popular Jargon File once claimed that BASIC is a backronym created in the (recent versions have corrected this). Evidence from the original Dartmouth BASIC manual ( ) show this to be untrue, but numerous online dictionaries and reference works on the Internet have now proliferated the earlier Jargon File's error. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide")
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Extractions: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMING ITP 150 Spring 2000, Tuesday, 2:00 pm, OHE 122 Course Description: Expose the functionality of the Visual Basic Programming Environment; provide an overview of programming fundamentals including variables, controls, data types, selection structures, ActiveX components, introduce the client/server computing model; create various Visual Basic applications from the lab component of the class Instructor: Anthony Borquez Messages : 213.740.4129; Fax: 213.740.1051; email: anthonyb@usc.edu Appointments Wed. 12:00p 1pm, Thu. 2 to 4:00 pm Required Textbooks: An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 6.0 th edition by Schneider Recommended book(s): Mastering Visual Basic Development , Microsoft Corporation Supplemental Reading Material provided by the instructor for topics concerning programming fundamentals or industry trends/standards Overview: This course will focus on the basic programming concepts associated with Visual Basic development. Students will create Visual Basic applications that incorporate fundamental concepts, as well as design programs based upon late breaking technologies from the industry. Tools that will be used in the course include: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Access, and ActiveX controls. Fundamentals of this course will include the Visual Basic Development environment, variables, the scope of variables, selection structures, data controls, application components and references, Internet Programming with VB Script, OLE, ActiveX controls, and connectivity with relational databases. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create Visual Basic applications that incorporate basic principles, as well as intermediate components of client/server development.
Extractions: In January of 2003, we published an interview with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier (http://java.sun.com/features/2003/01/lanier_qa1.html) that raised some basic questions about programming: Is there something fundamentally misguided about the way we write programs today? Why is it so difficult, if not impossible, to write bug-free programs that contain more than 20 to 30 million lines of code? Do we need a radical new paradigm shift in programming? If so, what might it look like? The interview provoked a strong response, both inside and outside of Sun Microsystems. One response came from Sun's Victoria Livschitz, a senior IT architect and Java Evangelist who has an interesting history. Livschitz grew up in Lithuania, where she was the women's chess champion and a National Chess Master in 1988 the same year in which she won the prestigious Russian national junior mathematical competition. She studied applied mathematics at Kharkov University in the Ukraine before coming to the US, where she subsequently received a degree in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. After a four-year stint at the Ford Motor company, she came to Sun in 1997, where she has served as principal architect on several high-profile eCommerce and EAI projects, while managing all aspects of Sun's technical presence at General Motors. In 2001, she was named System Engineer of the Year for the company's Central Area, and won the Trusted Advisor Award at Sun. In addition, she is a founding member of the World Wide Institute of Software Architects.
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Extractions: After Microsoft's Bill Gates addressed a Call Auditorium audience Feb. 25, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman presented him with a sweatshirt commemorating Cornell's role in Microsoft's growth. The legend reads "When I heard Steve talk about Cornell I began to take the Internet seriously," a reference to Gates' response to Cornell alumnus Steve Sinofsky's famous "Cornell is wired" message to Gates, which influenced Microsoft's mid-'90s strategic reorientation toward Internet-based products. By Bill Steele Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates sees a future in which technology manages all our information for us, with devices at work, at home and in our pockets all seamlessly linked. The hardware is already here or coming soon, he says, but the challenge is to create the software. And, he says, he needs today's college students to produce it. On Feb. 26 Gates brought that message to a Cornell audience packed with computer science students in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. His appearance was part of a whirlwind speaking tour of five colleges. "I want to share some of my excitement about the impact computer science is having on our lives," Gates began, and he went on to argue that the major developments in technology over the next 10 years will be in software. "Of course," he added, "I'm biased."
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Extractions: In terms of other languages, I've noticed that (Mr. Indigo) Don Box and (Mr. Avalon) Chris Anderson have been writing a lot lately about Ruby and Python. Where do you see Microsoft playing in that space? We're doing a lot of work to make .Net an even better platform for dynamic languages. ADVERTISEMENT I think interestingly that there's sort of a resurgence of interest in dynamic languages. When I look at it, I sort of see two different things there. And sometimes I think people confuse some of the advantages of dynamic languages. For example, some people say I love writing in Python, my favorite dynamic language, because my code is much terser and it's much easier to write, and so it goes much quicker. And sometimes people say, I think it's OK to pay the price of no type checking to get that terser code. Then I say, is it really necessary to have such strong typing in the name of tersity? I don't think it is, necessarily.