The First Programming Languages Crash Course Computer Science 11

Get your first two months of CuriosityStream free by going to a http 3A 2F 2Fcuriositystream com 2Fcrashcourse a and using the promo code crashcourse So we ended last episode with programming at the hardware level with things like plugboards and huge panels of switches but what was really needed was a more versatile way to program computers - software For much of this series we ve been talking about machine code or the 1 s and 0 s our computers read to perform operations but giving our computers instructions in 1 s and 0 s is incredibly inefficient and a higher-level language was needed This led to the development of assembly code and assemblers that allow us to use operands and mnemonics to more easily write programs but assembly language is still tied to underlying hardware So by 1952 Navy officer Grace Hopper had helped created the first high-level programming language A-0 and compiler to translate that code to our machines This would eventually lead to IBM s Fortran and then a golden age of computing languages over the coming decades Most importantly these new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier and more powerful giving more and more people the ability to create new and amazing things Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios a http 3A 2F 2Fyoutube com 2Fpbsdigitalstudios a Want to know more about Carrie Anne a https 3A 2F 2Fabout me 2Fcarrieannephilbin a The Latest from PBS Digital Studios a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fplaylist 3Flist 3DPL1mtdjDVOoOqJzeaJAV15Tq0tZ1vKj7ZV a Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet Facebook - a https 3A 2F 2Fwww facebook com 2FYouTubeCrash a Twitter - a http 3A 2F 2Fwww twitter com 2FTheCrashCourse a Tumblr - a http 3A 2F 2Fthecrashcourse tumblr com a Support Crash Course on Patreon a http 3A 2F 2Fpatreon com 2Fcrashcourse a CC Kids a http 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fcrashcoursekids a

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