But most important was how he helped generations of other people achieve things: he co-invented BASIC, the programming language most easily-grasped by everyday users. Kurtz is dead at 96.

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a ...

What makes the MIT App Inventor so powerful and easy to learn is that it relies on what is basically its own object-oriented programming language that ... a lot of the same basic functions.