History of programming

History of programming

1. In the 1840s Charles Babbage proposed the "Analytical Engine"

   • Ada Lovelace decided to write an article that provided detailed instructions on how to represent Bernoulli numbers
     • A recursive equation based on the Analytical Engine
     • Ada's article is considered to be the first computer program
     • Since then devices that can be programmed went from:
       • Theoretical to physical
         • Manual to automatic
         • Analog to digital

2. With the birth of main frame computers

   • Data processing required instructions to be sent to the machine and interpret the instruction
     • This was then applied to data to organize and analize it
       • Instructions were entered through a keyboard but without a monitor
         • Everything was done through printouts on paper

3. Computers got smaller so more languages were created

   • Languages serve to many specific kind of tasks, and industries
     • Like mathematics and science
     • A programer often needs to use many different programming languages in order to complete a project
   • Languages often evolve to complete specific tasks

4. Languages will evolve and change in the future

   • New languages will be deloped to allow programmers to innovate