BASIC
programming language for beginners, mainly using familiar English words or abbreviations of them
Common Themes
Videos Mentioning BASIC
John Preskill on Quantum Computing
Y Combinator
The programming language Richard Feynman was excited to use on his first IBM PC.
Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
Lex Fridman
First programming language Michael Littman used to try and teach tic-tac-toe to his computer.
David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86
Lex Fridman
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages.
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35
Lex Fridman
A high-level programming language used by Jeremy Howard on his Commodore 64.
Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
An early programming language mentioned chronologically after Fortran, COBOL, and ALGOL.
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14
Lex Fridman
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, Vogt's first programming language.
Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467
Lex Fridman
The programming language Tim Sweeney first learned during a summer visit to his brother in California.
Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games | Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A programming language Romero knew and used, which helped him get access to computers.
Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
Lex Fridman
A high-level programming language that Demis Hassabis first used on the ZX Spectrum.
Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294
Lex Fridman
An early programming language Tony Fadell learned in fifth grade, which involved using bubble cards and a paper terminal, providing a foundational experience in computing.
Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
Lex Fridman
An early, simple programming language often used for teaching beginners, which Travis used to write his first program.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
An early programming language used by Eich and his friend for a simple graphics program.
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel
Y Combinator
A programming language that needed to be ported to microcomputers, a task undertaken by early Microsoft founders.