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1945, John Von Neumann creates first program language as World War II comes to a close.
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1957, the first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN
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late 1970’s and early 1980’s, a new programing method was being developed. It was known as Object Oriented Programming, or OOP. Objects are pieces of data that can be packaged and manipulated by the programmer. Bjarne Stroustroup liked this method and developed extensions to C known as “C With Classes.” This set of extensions developed into the full-featured language C++, which was released in 1983.
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Jerry Lawson, creator of the F-14 game system begins advocating for STEM in Black Studies, but doesn't take place until 1994.
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Larry Wall in 1987 creates Linux coding system
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Hour of Code begins regular practice in schools and educational instatutes.