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Early Programming: Crash Course Computer Science #10
05/03/2017 | 9m 4s
| Video has closed captioning.
Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few episodes, our instructions were already in our computer’s memory, but we need to talk about how they got there - this is the heart of programming. Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming.
