The object of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest is to create a complete computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC. One of the first programming languages that my peers and I used was BASIC, which stands for ...

Most people would recognize E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 by its reputation as one of the worst video games of all time. We’ll have more to say about that in a moment, but E.T. was ...

It wasn’t easy, but [D. Scott Williamson] succeeded in implementing Jacks or Better Video Poker in 10 lines of BASIC, complete with flashing light and sound! Each round, one places a bet then plays a ...

Most artificial intelligence systems can be advanced by adding more: more computing power, more lines of code, more analysis, more neural networks, more machine learning. With only five lines of code, ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

Some of my fondest childhood memories include spending countless hours staring at excessively cyan-and-magenta-toned computer games (Jumpman, Archon, and Marble Madness, anyone?), listening to the ...

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Not sure how to best apply artificial intelligence (AI) to your unique, specialized needs? You've come to the right place. We'll go over how you can use a tool like ChatGPT to solve complex problems ...