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RPG – not Role Playing Game

By CurtisBarron | Published: February 28, 2008
Google “RPG”, and your first hits will be about role playing games. But before there were Role Playing Games, there was RPG (Report Program Generator). This was the name of a computer programming language developed in the 1960’s by IBM. It was designed to generate reports (thus the name) in a terse, simple way. It [...]
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Why Johnny Can’t Code and How to Help Him

By CurtisBarron | Published: January 3, 2007
When Bill Gates was 13, a parents group enabled his school to buy a Teletype machine and computer time on a remote GE computer that used the BASIC programming language; he, Paul Allen, and others became intrigued by the technology, including obviously the immediate feedback they got from programming in an easy programming language. He [...]
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