This video focuses on the first computer programming languages. We ended last episode with programming at the hardware level, but what was really needed was a way to program computers - software! So by 1952 Navy officer Grace Hopper had helped created the first high-level programming language A-0 and compiler to translate that code to our machines. This eventually lead to IBM's Fortran and then a golden age of computing languages over the coming decades. These new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier and more powerful giving more and more people the ability to create new and amazing things. [11:51]
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