Programming Languages

Programming Languages

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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)

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