History of Computers and Programming Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 1 How we went from this To this Early Chinese counting board: Used with permission Robyn Segrest 01/08/2015
Group Discussion Questions: 1.What is the simplest definition of a computer? 2.What defines a modern computer? 3.What is software? 4.What was the first computer? If you don’t know make a guess… 2 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
1.Counting boards and abaci – 1782: Jacques de Vaucanson – 1871: Charles Babbage – 1852: Countess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron King) – 1995: Konrad Zuse – 1992: Grace Hopper Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. 3
– 1957: John von Neumann : ENIAC : Keyboards and RAMACs – 2005: Jack Kilby : Development of Major Languages : IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit 4 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
: ASCII : Networking, BASIC : Simula s: Space Race : ARPANET : ATM, ARPANET, Shakey 5 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
: 8008 CPU, First true video game released : 8800 kit 21.Steve Wozniak 1950 – : PET (Personal Electronic Transistor) TRS-80 2600 Video Computer System : Worms Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
First mouse and GUI-driven computer introduced 26.Bjarne Stroustrup published “The C++ Programming Language” Scientist at CERN developed HTML First OS that satisfied PC users and provided support for large graphical applications was released Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, was dissatisfied with the state of the computer software industry as they became more secretive and proprietary with their code Intel released Pentium processors Mosaic web browser introduced 7 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.