Programming history timeline

programming history

Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Oct 9, 2015

Calculus

Jan 1, 1650

Isaac Newton invents calculus which is extremely useful in computer programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus

Alan Turing

Jan 1, 1945

He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
'http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing' >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing</a>

Eniac

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/78ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer

first transistor made

Jan 1, 1947

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransistorThe transistor is the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems. Made by three American physicists. Many people say it is best invention in 20 centuries

Direct keyboard input to computers

Oct 10, 1956

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/software-languages/At MIT, reasearcher keep have experiment inputing direct keyboard to computer. It was very convenient to use keyboard.

Kenneth Iverson writes A Programming Language

Oct 10, 1962

Kenneth Iverson developed a programming language which widely used in scientific, financial, and especially actuarial applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL

Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny create BASIC

Jan 1, 1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICThomas Kurtz and John Kemeny create BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which is easy to learn. It was spread widely to school and world.This is used widly in these day too.

Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop UNIX

Jan 1, 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixAT&T Bell Labs programmers Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie develop the UNIX operating system on a spare DEC minicomputer.

Programming Language: C

Jan 1, 1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie

Pong

Jan 1, 1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PongPong was one of the first video games, created by Atari.

Release of Home Computer

Jan 1, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computerHome Computers became available to the public

Programming Language: C++

Jan 1, 1983

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/70937C++ was developed in 1983 by Bjarne Stroustrup

Programming Language: Python

Jan 1, 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languagesPython was developed in 1991 by Guido van Rossum which is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.

Programming Language: Visual Basic

Jan 1, 1991

http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/programmingTimeline.htmVisual Basic was developed in 1991 by Microsoft.A programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic program itself.

Programming Language: JAVA

Jan 1, 1991

http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/programmingTimeline.htmJava, a general-purpose computer programming language was developed in 1991 by James Gosling.