the history of programming

By Ben lowe
  • Period: 1000 to

    the history of programming

  • The invention of the jacquard loom

    this was the very first computer ever and uses interchangeable punch cards

  • the first computer program is made.

    Ada Lovelace translated an article about an analytical machine and in the notes she described something that is cited as the first computer program

  • a programming language called PASCAL was invented

  • invention of electric tabulating system

    Herman Hollerith made the electric tabulating system that uses punch cards and a key punch machine to process data

  • the Atanasoff-berry computer

    This was the first electric digital computer and it was designed to solve linear equations. it was not programmable but it did use binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and parallel processing.

  • EDSAC was invented.

    EDSAC was the very first practical stored-program electric computer

  • the first high level programming language is made

    in 1954 john Backus made a programming language called Fortran

  • LISP was invented

    At the Massachusetts institute of technology a programming language called lisp was invented

  • The first computer game is released

    The first computer game, space wars, was made by Steve Russell. It took roughly 200 hours to complete.

  • A programming language called BASIC was invented

  • Ibm creates the first floppy disk

  • The programming language PASCAL is invented

  • the programming language C was invented

  • The first computer virus is made

    Fred Cohen designed a benign virus that would infect a computer, copy itself, and infect other computers through floppy disks.

  • the programming language Python is invented.

  • the programming language RUBY was invented.

  • Java was invented