Developed in the 1960s - Mainly used for Turtle Graphics - Created for Elementary students to learn programming using simple Geometry
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Machine Language
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Purely numbers - as close as you are going to get to pure binary... Most languages are translated to machine language before they are run (Hexadecimal)
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FORTRAN
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Developed by IBM in the 1950s - developed for Math and Science at Universities - Formula Translating System.
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Simula
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It was made in the 1960s - Stands for Simulation Language
Derived straight from Algol and inspired later languages like C++
First Object Oriented Language (programmable buttons that are specific)
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HTML
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Made in the 1980s - Hyptext Mark-up Language - to design the structure of web pages (not really programming) - but it is the back bone of the WWW
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Ruby
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Birthstone for the creator... but is one better than Pearl because PEARL is the birthstone for June and this program's name is the birthstone for July. Developed in the 1990s - Hybrid of all of the languages of the time
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C#
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Developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s - the name came from musical inspirational - a C# is a higher note than C - Developed by Microsoft and XBOX games are developed in this
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Pascal
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Named after Blasé PASCAL (famous mathematician - PASCAL's Triangle) -Most popular language of the 1970s but it was replaced by C++
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COBOL
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Late 1950s - Common Business Oriented Language - developed for businesses (Grace Hopper - David Letterman - she developed COBOL) - Also for the Y2K bug.
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BASIC
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Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (1960s) - developed with the idea of everybody being able to do programming.
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C
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Came around the 1970s, and was called C because for it there was a A and B language.
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute - they take programming languages and standardize them for all systems
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Ada
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Early 1980s (late 70s) - named after Ada Lovelace - used by US Department of Defense (it is a government language-military) - Developed with security in mind
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Algol
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Made in the 1960s—"Algorithmic Language" - a precursor for most modern languages - almost as if it is the Latin of Programming Languages
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LISP
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1950s - List Processing Language - used for math (2nd oldest language)
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Javascript
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Developed about the same time as JAVA - Used in Website Development - Originally called Mocha - ripped off the name JAVA because of its popularity - Developed by NETSCAPE
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Perl
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Named Pearl Originally then shortened- Practical Extraction and Reporting Language - Swiss army knife of programming language - good at everything but not great at anything - Late 80s/early 90s
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Java
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Named after coffee - mid 1990s - Originally developed for use in small kitchen appliances (like programming a microwave) The onset of the World Wide Web caused this program to explode in popularity (it is small and guaranteed to be virus free) - Developed by SUN Microsystems
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C++
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Came around the 1980s, and ++ means "add one" in programming language - so the next best version of C. Still the most popular development language in modern day - knowing it is very important to learn in industry
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Visual BASIC
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Used to create GUIs (graphical user interfaces) in Windows
Microsoft Programming Language (early 1990s)
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Python
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Popular language for social media apps (1990s)
Named after the famous British Comedy Group - Monty Python
Great language for beginners
Is the only language where "White Space" matters (tabs/space/etc.)
Teaches that spacing is important for programming
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Assembly Language
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Developed in the 1950s. - a very low level language which uses three letter combinations for commands rather than actual words
Very Fast but very difficult to program
(Assembly of God)
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(store characters - 65 is capital A)