This video focuses on early computer programming. Since Joseph Marie Jacquard's textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. We will discuss how programs get into our computer's memory - this is the heart of programming. We're going to look at the history of programming and the innovations that brought us from punch cards and punch paper tape to plugboards and consoles of switches. These technologies will bring us to the mid 1970s and the start of home computing, but they had limitations, what was really needed was an easier and more accessible way to write programs - programming languages. [9:26]
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