History of Programming and JavaScript
Discover the evolution of programming from early machine code to modern high-level languages. Understand JavaScript's development, its role on the web, and how it compares to other programming languages. This lesson prepares you to start coding with JavaScript effectively.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
A brief history of programming
The earliest computers were programmed using punched cards to represent a binary number system, the number system that computers use. The binary system is made up entirely of s and s that loosely translate to “on” and “off.” On the cards, a hole represented and no hole . After this, people started to develop languages that could be used to “speak” to the ...