Career Guideline on
Programming &
Networking
The Analytical Engine
During Queen Victoria’s reign mathematician
Charles Babbage designed the first computer .
The Analytical Engine was a steam-driven
mechanical computer with approx. 28,000 parts,
30 x 10 m in size.
Its memory was approximately 20.7 KB.
Who was the first ever
programmer?
The First Computer Program
Mathematician, Lady Ada
Lovelace, recognized the
potential of the Analytical Engine.
She became the world’s first
computer programmer
In 1883 when she published an
article showing how the
Analytical Engine could perform a
sequence of calculations
Assembly language
In 1949, a low-level language
intended to communicate directly
with a computer hardware, it is
called Assembly language.
It mainly consists of instructions
(kind of symbols) that only
machines could understand.
In today’s time also assembly
language is used to create
computer viruses.
Autocode
Autocode is the name of family “simplified coding system”
In 1952, The first autocode and its compiler were developed by
Alick Glennie
The first compiled computer programming language.
COBOL and FORTRAN are the languages referred to as Autocode.
Fortran
In 1957, John Backus and IBM developed by Fortran.
It was designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.
Software for NASA probes voyager-1 (space probe) and voyager-2
(space probe) was originally written in FORTRAN 5.
ALGOL
In 1958 ALGOL was developed and it stands for ALGOrithmic
Language.
The initial phase of the most popular programming languages of C,
C++, and JAVA.
It was also the first language implementing the nested function and
has a simple syntax than FORTRAN.
The first programming language to have a code block like “begin”
that indicates that your program has started and “end” means you
have ended your code.
COBOL
In 1959, COBOL was evolved. It stands for COmmon Business-
Oriented Language.
In 1997, 80% of the world’s business ran on Cobol.
The US internal revenue service scrambled its path to COBOL-based
IMF (individual master file) in order to pay the tens of millions of
payments mandated by the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic
security.
BASIC
The year of 1964, BASIC was introducded
It stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
In 1991 Microsoft released Visual Basic, an updated version of Basic
The first microcomputer version of Basic was co-written by Bill
Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff for their newly-formed
company, Microsoft.
C
In 1972, a general-purpose,
procedural programming language
, called C was evolved and it is the
most popular programming
language till now.
C was invented by Dennis
[Link] can be used in
implementing an operating
system, embedded system, and
also on the website using the
Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
Why C is important
C is the mother of almost all higher-level programming
languages like C#, D, Go, Java, JavaScript, Limbo,Perl,
PHP, Python, and Unix’s C shell.
