There were *lots* of magazines back in the 80s. As you note, many were specific to one computer or another. A+ for Apple, STart and ST Format for Atari ST, Amiga had a few, Atari 8-bits had Antic ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. ... Lovelace’s contributions to computing marked the beginning of a ...

MADISON, S.D. (KELO) — From a covered wagon to and old car, the Lake County Museum takes visitors on a journey through local history. “The bulk of our collection is from pre-1900 to around ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last ...

National Museum of American History. When Computer Programming Was ‘Just Like Planning a Dinner. Women were encouraged to seek employment in computing by appealing to traditional domestic roles.

The team will start by studying code from online repositories, such as Github and BitBucket, as well as analyzing questions and responses posted on StackExchange. This massive dataset will be used to ...

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

By the 1960s, some aspects of computer programming and information processing jobs, ... This post was originally published on the National Museum of American History's blog on September 30, 2021.