History of Programming and JavaScript

Learn about the history of programming and JavaScript.

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 11s and 00s that loosely translate to “on” and “off.” On the cards, a hole represented 11 and no hole 00 . After this, people started to develop languages that could be used to “speak” to the computer.

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