History of Programming

By annam12
  • Birth of Programing

    Birth of Programing
    Charles Babbage gave a lecture about his computing machine in Italy. The transcript was published. Ada Lovelace found this, translated it, and spent 9 months working on it, tripling the length of the report.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace is the first person to write a computer algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers.
  • First Electric Computer

    First Electric Computer
    The first computers were huge and could not carry out very complicated functions.
  • Programming as a Career

    Programming as a Career
    Since the invention of computers, programming has existed. Programmers became a vey important job. It mostly consisted of building or improving current programming languages so that computers could preform more functions faster.
  • First Programing Language

    First Programing Language
    The first programming language called FORTRAN was mad public on October 15, 1956. It was created by John Backus and others at IBM.
  • Bill Gate's Programming Language

    Bill Gate's Programming Language
    The Altair BASIC programming language was used to create programs for Altair computers. It was created by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff.
  • Python Created

    Python Created
    Python is a multi-purpose programming language that is very prevalent with programmers today.
  • Release of Java

    Release of Java
    Java was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. It is the most popular programming language right now followed by Python.
  • Swift invented

    Swift invented
    The Swift programming language helped create programs for a variety of Apple products, like iOS, macOS, the Apple Watch, and AppleTV.
  • Modern Day Programming

    Modern Day Programming
    Now, programming is used is everyday life. Programmers are now in charge of using existing programs and making websites, video games, apps, and new devices. It is used in tandem with engineers who build complicated machines. The programmers then take that hardware and tell it what to do. This field still has a huge gender gap that needs to be filled.