HISTORY OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

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ADA LOVELACE H. HOLLERITH ABC COLLOSSUS G.M. HOPPER EDSAC

In 1834-1842, Ada Lovelace
translated a French paper
about the Analytical Engine
and, in her own annotations,
published how it could
perform a sequence of
calculations. She describes
an algorithm as the first
computer program, making
her the first computer
programmer.
He developed the electric
tabulating system in 1889.
He chose the punched card
as the basis for storing and
processing information and
he built the first punched-
card tabulating and sorting
machines as well as the first
key punch, and he founded
the company that was to
become IBM12 in 1896.
or Anasoft-Berry Computer,
The ABC was designed for a
specific purpose in 1937 and
tested in 1942 – the
solution of systems of
simultaneous linear
equations, featured 300
vaccum tubes, use of binary,
punch cards, etc, but it was
not programmable.
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The Colossus was developed
in 1943 by engineer Tommy
Flowers(British
codebreakers), based on
plans by the mathematician
Max Newman. It was
designed to decode the
encrypted transmissions
from the German teleprinter
Lorenz cipher.
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On September 9, 1947, the
world's first computer bug was
recorded. But this was no
ordinary 'software bug'. It was a
real-life moth that was causing
the issues with the computer's
hardware. This “first actual case
of bug being found" was
recorded by computer scientist
Grace Hopper.
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The Electronic Delay Storage
Automatic Calculator (EDSAC),
developed at Britain's
Cambridge University, ran its
first programs in May 6, 1949. It
became the first stored-program
computer and used table of
squares and prime numbers in
calculation.
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OOP C LANGUAGE PASCAL ALGOL COBOL FORTRAN

It is a computer programming
model that organizes software
design around data, or objects,
rather than functions and logic.
An object can be defined as a
data field that has unique
attributes and behavior. Bjarne
Stroustrup developed
extensions to C (aka. C with
class/C++ 1983).
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C is a general-purpose
programming language
created by Dennis Ritchie at
the Bell Laboratories in
1972. It is a very popular
language, despite being old.
C is strongly associated with
UNIX, as it was developed
to write the UNIX operating
system.
Pascal is a general-purpose, high-
level language that was originally
developed by Niklaus Wirth in
1968s. It was developed for
teaching programming as a
systematic discipline and to
develop reliable and efficient
programs. Pascal is ALGOL-based
language and includes many
constructs of ALGOL, COBOL, and
FORTRAN.
short for algorithmic
language. It is a family of
portable programming
languages for scientific
computations that had a
strong influence on other
languages( Pascal, C, C++,
and Java). the first language
with a formal grammar,
known as Backus-Naar
From/BNF.
Common Business Oriented
Language. It is imperative,
procedural, and object-oriented. A
compiler is a computer program
that takes other computer
programs written in a high-level
(source) language and converts
them into another program,
machine code, which the computer
can understand. It is primarily used
in business, finance
FORTRAN, also known as
“formula translating system”.
Fortran is a programming
language developed in the
1950s. It uses user-friendly
computer language. It was
designed by IBM(invented
by John Backus in 1954) and
appeared as FORTRAN in
1957.

INTERATIVE TV VISUAL BASIC

LIn early 1990’s, the interactive
TV was developed. Sun
Microsystems decided that
interactive TV needed a special
and portable language. This
language became Java.
Netscape licensed Java to be
used in their internet
browser(aka. Navigator).
is an event-driven programming language
and environment from Microsoft that
provides a graphical user interface (GUI)
which allows programmers to modify code by
simply dragging and dropping objects and
defining their behavior and appearance. It is
developed in 1964 by John Kemeny and
Thomas Kurtz.