Timeline for What was the first programming book
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| Mar 30 at 23:29 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2017 at 19:55 | vote | accept | Bálint | ||
| Jun 4, 2016 at 23:43 | comment | added | pipe | It's also worth noting (adding to the comment about decimal vs. binary) that binary arithmetics were being used long before digital computers were even thought of. For fun and profit, simply because a lot of problems naturally lend themselves to a power-of-two notation, but also because the idea of being able to represent any number with only two symbols was seen as pretty awesome. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 15:04 | comment | added | Michael Shopsin | There are ongoing discussions about whether Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, she definitely understood that computers could solve whole classes of algorithmic problems, not just specific instances that Babbage was interested in. Her translation of the Menabrea paper made it clear that she grasped what could be done. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 13:34 | comment | added | Mark Stewart | Here's a reference for the above: historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=546 | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 21:39 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 2, 2016 at 21:35 | history | answered | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |