How was programing invented?

Did a presentation on this back in the day. Cba to explain. Maybe later

translation: i dont know

First computers were mechanical. Dunno whether that helps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

Programming languages are just multiple ways of accomplishing the same thing, just with varying levels of difficulty. Anything you can do in Java you can do using 1s and 0s, though I wouldn't want to be the one to try it.

Want my .doc attached?

That to do with 'high level languages' and 'machine code' ?

Essentially yes, that's why high level languages need to be compiled/interpreted, so the computer understands it as binary (machine code).

I can imagine you using this as a chat up line on the ladies.


"Hey girl do you want me to show you my .doc?"

nerd

I can imagine you using this as a chat up line on the ladies.


"Hey girl do you want me to show you my .doc?"

nerd

So is say Microsoft word like the highest form of a language. Or is it based on something like C++? Or am I miss understanding.

What is the binary physically? Is it on/off of the current?

Okay, this is my crudely written attempt at explaining. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

All computers are based from what is known as the 'Stored Program' model, where it will execute instructions on at a time from a memory location. I won't go into the basics, but it will be in binary. The computer and what/whoever wrote the code will know what the binary patterns correspond to. A programmer will write this in assembly code, which are just mnemonics for the binary patterns. It looks something like this:

LOAD 3A54
ADD #47
SAVE 3A54

These vary depending on the type of chip inside each computer. So, if you wanted to program like this, you'd have to write unique code for each type. That's time-consuming, and also because of the simplicity, very difficult to make anything meaningful.

So what computer scientists began to do, was to develop programming languages. These would allow the programmer to write code in an easy-to-read style, and then when they 'compile' the code, it is automatically translated to the machine/assembly code by the compiler program. Modern programming languages even add extra things, like 'if' statements and something called 'object-oriented programming', which is basically what we use when writing programs. (Java, C#, etc.)