Computer Programming Timeline Activity

  • Plankalkul

    German for "Plan calculus" and is used for engineering purposes
  • Fortran

    A general purpose language, mainly used for numeric and scientific computing.
  • Math-matic

    Language made specifically for the UNIVAC I & II. It dealt with math.
  • Lisp

    Practical mathematics notation for computer programs.
  • COBOL

    This language stands for (Common business-oriented language) and this programming language does just that. It is an object oriented language that was made for business use.
  • RPG

    Used for general business applications and stands for (Report program generator)
  • Basic

    This language stands for (Beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code) Basic was mainly a simple, general purpose language.
  • Logo

    This programming language that was primarily used for education purposes.
  • B

    This language was designed for recursive, non-numeric machine independent applications.
  • Pascal

    Imperative, procedural programming language and its dialect was Delphi.
  • C

    A general purpose, imperative computer programming language.
  • ML

    General purpose language, similar to Lisp.
  • SQL

    This language stands for (Structured query language) domain specific programming language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a rational database management system.
  • ADA

    This language was designed for large long-lived applications, extended from Pascal.
  • C++

    A general purpose, imperative, object oriented programming language.
  • Python

    A general purpose language, similar to Java or c++
  • Visual Basic

    And IDE (integrated development environment) for microsoft, derived from Basic and was a general purpose language.
  • Delphi

    This is a language is an SDK (Software development kit) for desktop, mobile and web devices.
  • Java

    A general purpose , object oriented, concurrent, class-based programming language.
  • Javascript

    A high-level, untyped, interpreted programming language that is used with html and CSS to create things on the web.
  • PHP

    Serverside scripting language used for web development.