A fun semi-related discussion 5 months ago with lots of anecdotes that also links several BASICs that are still alive:
2022-08-04 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349516 All about QBasic and QuickBasic
2022-08-04 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349516 All about QBasic and QuickBasic
That book is digitized at Archive.org (because of course it is), so I can quote https://archive.org/details/dannydunnhomewor00will/page/136/... after the kids have gotten an award for doing more and harder homework than the rest of the class, through the use of the "Miniac" computer, which they had programmed to do their homework. Professor Bullfich starts,
"Naturally, in order to feed information into the computer you had to know it yourselves. And in order to give the machine the proper instructions for solving problems, you had to know how to solve them yourselves. So, of course, you had to do homework -- and plenty of it."
"Why, simply programming a problem is homework," Dr. Grimes put in.
Looking through it now, they got help from a couple of people affiliated with IBM. The authors also write "In all fairness to Professor Bullfich and Dr. Grimes, we wish to point out their position on homework is supported by Bulletin 1248-3 of the Education Service Bureau, University of Pennsylvania."
For what it's worth, I can't find that bulletin. https://archive.org/details/sim_childhood-education_1957-01_... informs me the title was "What About Homework?"
Thank you for bringing up that old memory!