Cosma / Communication / Media / Computation / Software / Program
And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do. — Vint Cerf
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Introduction1
Dictionary
program : a sequence of coded instructions that can be inserted into a mechanism (as a computer) — Webster See also OneLook
Programming (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
Encyclopedia
Computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer. A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program’s instructions in a central processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute the instructions. The same program in its human-readable source code form, from which executable programs are derived (e.g., compiled), enables a programmer to study and develop its algorithms. — Wikipedia
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Innovation
Technology
Programming language is any set of rules that converts strings, or graphical program elements in the case of visual programming languages, to various kinds of machine code output. Programming languages are one kind of computer language, and are used in computer programming to implement algorithms. — Wikipedia
Larry Wall (Official Site)
Larry Wall (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Bjarne Stroustrup (Official Site)
Bjarne Stroustrup (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Inside the minds of great programmers (Big Think, YouTube Channel)
Programming Languages
Fortran, COBOL, BASIC
C, C++
Python, Perl, Ruby
Java, JavaScript
Lisp, APL, Haskell
List of programming languages (Wikipedia)
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Preservation
History
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer
Crash Course: Computer Science (YouTube Channel)
Computer Languages History (Éric Lévénez)
The Programming Languages Genealogy Project (Everything2)
“Mother Tongues” Lineage Chart (Wired Infographic) (PDF Version)
Library
Library of Congress # QA76.6 Programming (UPenn Online Books)
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
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Participation
The art of computer programming (Donald Ervin Knuth)
Education
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use. — Robert L. Kruse, Data structures and program design in C
Code.org
Computer science curriculum (Computer Science Academy, Carnegie Mellon University)
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Course
Grasshopper App (Official Site)
Google Developers Training
Python Lesson 1 (Justin Arnold, Tech Train)
Introduction to Python Programming (Udacity)
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (MIT Opencourseware)
Community
Occupation
Organization
SIGPLAN – Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM)
Forum
News
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Computer Programming News (Science Daily)
NPR Archives
Book
Government
Document
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Expression
Fun
Humor
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Poem
OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
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