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Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment
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<p>DOPE, short for Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment, was a simple <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> designed by <a href="/facts/John_G._Kemeny/A388Exjr">John Kemény</a> in 1962 to offer students a transition from <a href="/facts/Flowchart/BtNXBfUG">flow-charting</a> to programming the <a href="/facts/LGP-30/R0p7wtmV">LGP-30</a>. Lessons learned from implementing DOPE were subsequently applied to the invention and development of <a href="/facts/Dartmouth_BASIC/DY1M2BmI">BASIC</a>. </p>