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Charles Babbage had made the ______, but he was confused about how to give instructions to the machine
Charles Babbage had made the ______, but he was confused about how to give instructions to the machine
device
Ada Lovelace wrote the instructions for the ______ engine
Ada Lovelace wrote the instructions for the ______ engine
analytical
Assembly Language is a type of ______ language
Assembly Language is a type of ______ language
low-level
The era of pioneering programming languages started in the ______
The era of pioneering programming languages started in the ______
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John Backus and the creation of ______ (Formula Translation)
John Backus and the creation of ______ (Formula Translation)
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Study Notes
Early Computing
- Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer
- Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, for the Analytical Engine
Programming Languages
- Assembly language is a low-level programming language that uses mnemonics to represent machine instructions
- The early era of pioneering programming languages began in the 1950s
- John Backus led the development of Fortran, a high-level programming language designed for scientific and engineering applications, short for Formula Translation
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Test your knowledge of the history of Python programming with this engaging quiz. Explore the roots of programming and key figures such as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, and delve into the early developments that paved the way for the modern Python language.
