The company's first product was an adaptation of the Basic programming language used in the Altair 8800, a kit computer.

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They wrote an interpreter for the Basic programming language that would run on the Altair and showed it to Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, which manufactured the Altair.

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Quite a few years ago, the most popular microcomputer programming language was called Basic.

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Users could play many games and also learn the programming language of computers -- BASIC.

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The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.

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