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Hack to the Future!
This interactive educational experience will guide you through the journey of code, from the early days of computing to the unique nature of programming today.
We hope that viewing programming through these different perspectives throughout time will allow you a better insight into its evolution.
Hack to the Future!
This interactive educational experience will guide you through the journey of code, from the early days of computing to the unique nature of programming today.
We hope that viewing programming through these different perspectives throughout time will allow you a better insight into its evolution.
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Developed in 1959, The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) was the first computer built in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series. The PDP-1 was the original computer for many major inventions, including the earliest video game 'Spacewar!', the text editor, the word processor, the interactive debugger, and the first computer chess program! Just one year earlier, FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language, was developed by IBM. Fortran is best known for its applications in numeric and scientific computing, and became the base for many programming languages that followed.
Here's how to print hello world in FORTRAN
PROGRAM HELLO
PRINT *, "HELLO WORLD!"
END PROGRAM HELLO
PROGRAM HELLO
PRINT *, "HELLO WORLD!"
END PROGRAM HELLO
The Apple Macintosh, launched in 1984, revolutionized personal computing by introducing a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) and the innovative use of a mouse, setting it apart from text-based systems. It democratized computing, making technology accessible to non-technical users and influencing future GUI designs. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), developed in 1964, was one of the first programming languages designed to be easy for beginners to learn. It became widely popular in the early days of personal computing, including on the Apple Macintosh.
Here's how to print hello world in BASIC
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
In the early 2000s, the desktop computer became a common household item. Models like Dell and HP were widely used, providing more people with access to computers and the ability to code. Python, a high-level general-purpose coding language, was developed in the late 1980s by programmer Guido van Rossum. The language gained popularity for its readability and close association to human language, making it one of the most popular coding languages for beginngers, even today!
Here's how to print hello world in Python
print("Hello, World!")
print("Hello, World!")