Learning to write for school was never a great path to excellent writing, but now that we have added learning to write for a standardized test, things have gotten even worse.

But one day I was curious as to whether you could program moving objects just in BASIC and see them move like realistic animation. I had designed Breakout for Atari in hardware.

One instructor I contacted, John Maguire, has published a manual for writing teachers that stresses concrete nouns, active verbs, and conciseness. I expect to draw heavily from his work. Like athletes ...

Not one brief BASIC program but two or three of them–accounts vary–ran simultaneously, ... “Monte Davidoff, who helped me and Bill write BASIC for the Altair, ...

A community college professor in New Mexico, which ranks 44th of 50 states in literacy and has one of the highest school dropout rates in the nation, reveals how he used encouragement and innovative ...