Timeline: Computer Programming by Vasuma Chaparala

Dec 16, 1801

Jacquard Loom

Invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard
controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design.

Dec 10, 1815

First Computer Programmer (Ada Lovelace)

Father; George Gordon Byron
Theory: method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as looping that computer programs use today.

Dec 16, 1834

Analytical Enine

invented by Charles Babbage
Use; (first computer) to be able to perform any calculation set before it

Dec 16, 1890

Herman Hollerith

built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch
Built in 1890
Company he founded; Tabulating Machine Company; now called IBM

Dec 16, 1943

Plankalkül

Invented by Donrad Zuse
No Abbreviation

Jan 6, 1952

Table Tennis

Willy Higinbotham invented it.
Invented in 1952
It works by two people and like table tennis

Dec 16, 1959

Grace Hopper

Invented Cobol
enabled computers to have one of the first high-level programming languages.
Phrase: DEBUGGING

Jan 6, 1968

Pascal Programming language

Niklaus Wirth Developed it
Developed in 1968
it was a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

Jan 6, 1969

C programming language

Developed by Dennis Ritchie
Developed in 1969
Language it was developed for - Unix operating system.

Jan 6, 1983

Fred Cohen

Developed the first computer virus defense techniques.
Developed in 1983
What it is: culd "infect" computers, make copies of itself, and spread from one machine to another.

Dec 6, 1989

Python programming language

Guido van Rossum developed it.
Developed in December 1989
Used as a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.

Jun 6, 1991

Java Programming Language

James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton developed it.
Developed in June 1991
It is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.