AN OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING |, 4 mputer Programmer ‘You probably use computers and programs on a Cae dally basis, but you might not be aware that the first"pre-computers' didn't even use electricity or that the fist computer programmer was a woman. Computers have a huge impact on ourlife, and computer programs tell those. ‘computers what to do and hew to do it. For both good and bad, computer programs have ditered our existence, so is about time you learned alittle something about them.RCO Mee iene rst} Invented| ee CCN e: Cee rr Re ig Cee ee a eed Bee ae eee FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER: ADA LOVELACE. eee oe ee aed CeCe ee ees ee Ce eee tac ee ene oe ae [adc EE See ee eee See eee ee eee en Hollerith cards, after experimenting, ere ea eer er Re uno era ory ro eae een Le ee rn fered which became IBM | neon Src ee ee erry eran or erate et ene tees?Epon PTS eT Although it was not programmable, it did use binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, parallel processing, and separate memory. CER oR ed Keron Dearne ard eee arene eed Ererneen Colossus machine OR earn an admiral In the U.S. Navy and ee eyelet sea Macon cir rE can) Relay Calculator. eens eer) EESEEEEE I the computer. documentation, 1947 SO ocr Ree emer ee or Seni Ra eo CU) Seen Lee neta Pee Ra Red ue races EDSAC, 1949FIRST HICH LEVEL COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANCUACE USED: FORTRAN nis. @ Fortran eter De eo a Eeeineteeme rr) Peete tet en tee eee Ri rere damats ose" tency ay Dr ore Fortran user manual FIRST COMPUTER CAM! Te Oe jayer game where two spaceships, cs Roe Ca oar ea ee a aa ae ee Breet 200 man- nour ae eee eee eet Russell EERIE] rom spacewar! “If hadn't done it, someone would've done something ‘equally exciting, ifnot better, in thenext six months. | just happened to get there first.” (Russell, about Spacewar!) RCAC ena eg Pease ne went on to program the [ESUGETEIE Faces some eencoe sin FIRST COMPUTER VIRUS PROGRAMMER: FRED COHEN ORM re urn ee er een Cras Pree a Pesta hie The program was EEG meant CMe Coeena eed Cee ere rr erred Ca eer at ents Oe arene een eee tenn ee te tee) Cozies eaeereog Is formed and er hieea ns Piro 46ers Seeecruar! Wreless internet ‘access, Wi-Fi, is standardized. oo Ae rr pineal Penner and computer programmers ‘employed in the U.S. ema) ete ree MERE] other | ee a oo er cae eer India, China, Russia, Ukraine, and the Philippines.$60,000 ary PR BLL rar $10,734