Universities and the Future of Programming Languages Some universities haven’t stopped innovating when it comes to creating the languages themselves. Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last ...

Features A brief history of computer programming languages. Which do you use? Simon Raik-Allen ABC Technology and Games Updated 17 Jan 2013 (First posted 11 Jan 2013) ...

German civil engineer and early computer pioneer Konrad Zuse files for a patent on the automatic execution of calculations, a process that will become central to the Z-1, Germany’s first computer.

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

Most are about hardware. But, some YouTubers focus on JUST programming 8 bit computers and some on JUST certain platforms. So for example there's a guy who only talks about Applesoft BASIC.

Kids who were lucky or privileged enough (or both) to gain access to computers that ran BASIC—the VIC-20, the Commodore 64, janky Sinclair boxes in the UK—immediately started writing games ...

But, in fact, many of the first computer programmers and coders were women, explains Nathan Ensmenger, a professor and expert on the history of computing at Indiana University and author of The ...

Prof. David Gries, computer science, programmed for the first time in 1959 on a “fake computer.” The machine used a “fake language,” Gries said, as computer languages like Java had not ...