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:

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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

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