Development software

First generation software languages

Overview | Sample | Characteristics | User | Applications

Overview

Early languages were developed, and forced the humans to think like a computer, working at "electronic levels" of on/off switches. This highly skilled and technical job required enormous amounts of patience and accuracy, since a single 0 out of place could render the instructions useless.

Fortunately since the 1940's programming languages, (or ways of writing computer instructions) have evolved, so that with a little training most humans can issue instructions to the computer to follow.

 

Sample

Late 1940's - Machine Language

010001010001001010001001000100010001001
000010010010100100010001001000100100001
000100001001010101011010110011101010010
010000101111001001000100100010000100100
100100010001010101111100111010010001010
110100100100010

 

Characteristics

User

What type of person would write in machine code ?

  • Programmer
  • Engineer

Applications

 

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