Computer History
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
Pndm wrote:
I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on.
Petzold's book, Code, will help with some of this.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
He invented the internet and computers. Right?:rolleyes:
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He invented the internet and computers. Right?:rolleyes:
Ooohhh.. they have the internet on computers now.
------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
Wikipedia.
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Pndm wrote:
I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on.
Petzold's book, Code, will help with some of this.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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A good place to start "History Of Programming Languages". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPL[^]
Thanks, but I'm not in need of this.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
Pndm wrote:
Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
I am surprised no one pointed to more of the internet ones, the book recommendation is good. http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml[^] Biography of Ada Lovelace[^] Computer History Museum[^] Computer History[^] The idea that Ada Lovelace (Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace) was the first computer programmer is an honorary title. As you will see in reading the discriptions it is NOTHING like computer programming is today, or even was when it officially began. She came after the punch-card-driven weaving machines, which theoretically would be closer to a programming concept, it just was a specialty machine. Ada Lovelace wrote the first detailed description of, and theoretical use of, and offered suggestions to, the first general purpose computational machine. This qualifies her loosely as offering specific implimentation of a general purpose machine, thus she is given the honor of being the first programmer. But be clear it was not programming in any way we know it today, the machines of that age were nothing like computers. I have a great deal of respect for Ada Lovelace, she had a creative mind and mathematical training, she could "see" the use of the Analytical Engine in many ways the builder did not. Personally I think her creative genius was greater than her mathematical, certainly she would never have met Charles Babbage had her mother not tried to force
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He invented the internet and computers. Right?:rolleyes:
code-frog wrote:
Right?
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp[^] :rolleyes:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ooohhh.. they have the internet on computers now.
------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
Doctor Nick wrote:
they have the internet on computers now
all of the internet_s_. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Thanks, but I'm not in need of this.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
DavidCrow wrote:
Thanks, but I'm not in need of this.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Classic. I've always loved your replies to such things.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.
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Wikipedia.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Wikipedia.
One advantage there is that it'll be different every time you check it.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency! -Emily Dickinson
"Always in motion is the past." -- Yoda
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DavidCrow wrote:
Thanks, but I'm not in need of this.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Classic. I've always loved your replies to such things.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.
Of course there's always the possibility that he posted to the OP but the thread got messed up. I think there's equal chance of both happening.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Hi guys.. I would like to know any good books/websites from wich i can learn more about computer history, since it's beginning to our days, who was the first programer (as far as i know it was a women) and so on. I'm getting very interested in this and maybe i can learn stuff to help me, by having a better understand of how things were done before, i can understand how things are done in our days in a easier/most understandble way. Appreciate any replies
Since my native language isn't english please forgive my gramar errors. ^_^ ^º-º^ OddSignature ^º-º^
I'm currently reading this about the evolution of the CPU. It's great so far. Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture [^]
Todd Smith
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Wikipedia.
One advantage there is that it'll be different every time you check it.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency! -Emily Dickinson
while a book can be wrong forever.
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Doctor Nick wrote:
they have the internet on computers now
all of the internet_s_. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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People jokingly say "internets" but technically they are more correct than the people who say "internet" like it's one thing.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
John Cardinal wrote:
People jokingly say "internets" but technically they are more correct than the people who say "internet" like it's one thing.
Well... the internet would be a conglomerate, a combination of many things, but it is still an internet. However you do have isolated internet like nets like the military network which looks like an internet, but isn't for public use, same with security information on their own equivalent. But these systems have their own protocols, own standards, and outside of common origins, look nothing like the parent entitity from which they sprung. The internet simply "is" there is no other way to describe it. It is not one thing that you can point at and say "there it is" anymore than you can pick one direction to point to the universe. But it is an entity, a conglomeration of chaotic masses always in motion. It is actually pretty amazing we can find anything in the chaos. :-D Any time you successfully find something, drink a beer in celebration. ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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He invented the internet and computers. Right?:rolleyes:
_I_nternet! Dagnabit! With a capital I!
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I'm currently reading this about the evolution of the CPU. It's great so far. Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture [^]
Todd Smith
Last spring, at a garage sale, I bought a book on the 8080 processor. I liked it so much I followed up with a book on the 8086/8088 off Ebay. Both of the books are from the '80s. -- modified at 12:28 Wednesday 29th August, 2007