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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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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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