A history of computer programming
summary
Starts at the Jacquard loom using punched patterns and traces a line from Babbage’s unfinished Analytical Engine to Ada Lovelace’s Bernoulli algorithm (the first published program), through working machines like the Zuse Z3/Z4 and early languages Plankalkül, Fortran, COBOL and Lisp, to Simula→objects, C’s lineage from CPL→BCPL, and the browser-era split that births Java and JavaScript; ends on practical quantum access via the IBM Quantum Experience with 5 qubits.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:52About me
- 1:23Overview
- 2:21Jacquard Loom
- 3:48Analytical Engine
- 6:59Ada Lovelace
- 9:26Early computers
- 10:09The Bomba
- 11:28The Sousa Z3
- 13:16Plant Cocoon
- 14:32Superplan
- 15:55The Edvac
- 17:47Shortcode
- 18:28Autocode
- 19:45Zeta
- 20:54The Golden Age
- 21:18Flowmatic
- 22:30COBOL
- 23:40Fortran
- 24:53IPL
- 25:58Lisp
- 27:01Algol
- 28:36Modern Programming
- 28:54Basic
- 31:32APL
- 32:56Simula
- 39:00Java
- 42:10Viola
- 43:47JavaScript
- 46:56Quantum Computing
- 47:24Justin Trudeau
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