Long before the days of laptops and smartphones, Thomas E. Kurtz worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. Kurtz has died at 96.
Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...
Smalltalk, an early object-oriented language, was developed by Alan Kay’s team at Xerox PARC. Released commercially as Smalltalk-80, it played a significant role in educational programming and is ...
This course introduces students to the key features of programming languages. Students implement a series of interpreters that nail down the precise details of how various aspects of programming ...