A Science of Operations Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming /

• Main Author: Priestley, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.

Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them. A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly as the definition of the ste...