Episode Details

With four episodes to go Vic chose a topic that was never on the list - the history of programming. We look at five key people in the evolution of programming.
With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

Stickers Direct Links:

• Pragmatic Sticker: Small
• Pragmatic Sticker: Large
• TechDistortion Sticker: Small
• TechDistortion Sticker: Large

Punch-Cards:

• Computer Programming In The Punched Card Era
• Early Punched Card Equipment

Key People In Programming History:

• NASA Engineers and Scientists
• John von Neumann
• Charles Babbage
• Alan Turing
• The Imitation Game: Inventing A New Slander To Insult Alan Turing
• Margaret Hamilton

Turing:

• Turing Completeness
• Turing Test
• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Alan Turing: Inquest’s Suicide Verdict Not Supportable
• Alan Turing And The Development Of The Electronic Computer
• Turing Test

Miscellaneous:

• Slide Rule
• Von Neumann Architecture
• Harvard Architecture
• Modified Harvard Architecture
• Jacquard Loom
• Computer History
• History Of Programming Languages
• One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
• Colossus Computer
• Mathematical Fractions
• Least Common Denominator
• Why Do We Say Lowest Common Denominator
• The Java Software Platform