1. The History of Computer Programming
... was physical motion." In 1945, John Von Neumann who worked for the Institute for Advanced Study devised two important concepts that helped sculpt the future of computer programming. The first point he made became known as "Shared-Program Technique", it stated that the actual computers hardware should be simple and not need to be hand-wired for ... instructions should be used to control simple hardware, allowing reprogramming at a later time to be much faster. His second idea, known as "Conditional Control Transfer" acknowledged the fact that chronological computer instructions should b...
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