joseph marie jacquard

  • the french silk weaver

    In 1804, French silk weaver Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs. Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.
  • scientist

    Ada Lovelace wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that anticipated the development of computer software, artificial intelligence and computer music. Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Lady Ada Lovelace was known as the "enchantress of numbers" who collaborated with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical thinking/calculating machine.
  • engine

    The dawn of the computer age begins with the invention of the analytical engine. This mechanical 19th century computer had a processing unit inventor Charles Babbage called the "mill" that could store number programs. Data was inputted using punch cards then Babbage's computer would solve the problem and provide a printed answer.
  • microsoft visual basic

    Since 1991 when it was first introduced by Microsoft, there have been nine versions of Visual Basic up to VB.NET 2005, the current version. The first six versions were all called Visual Basic. In 2002, Microsoft introduced Visual Basic .NET 1.0, a completely redesigned and rewritten version that was a key part of a much larger computer architecture. The first six versions were all "backward compatible". That means that later versions of VB could handle programs written with an earlier version. B
  • PHP

    PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to...
  • javascript

    JavaScript is an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational
  • PYTHON

    PYTHON
    A large heavy-bodied nonvenomous snake (genera Python, Morelia, and Aspidites, family Pythonidae) occurring throughout the Old World...