- •Lesson 1
- •Text a a first look at computers
- •Text b a short history of the personal computer
- •Text c renewing your license with a touchscreen
- •Lesson 2
- •Text a types of computers
- •Text b steve jobs and the NeXt computer
- •Text c learning a foreign language with hypertext
- •Lesson 3
- •Text a living with computers
- •Text b bits of history
- •Text c hot rod chips
- •Lesson 4
- •Text a elements of hardware
- •Text b history of the chip
- •Text c software down on the farm
- •Lesson 5
- •Text a memory
- •Internal Memory
- •Text b engineering with cad
- •Text c help for nurses from helpmate
- •Lesson 6
- •Text a elements of hardware
- •Input/Output Telecommunication
- •Text b the first computer
- •Text c creating 3-d models with a digitizer
- •Lesson 7
- •Text a types of software
- •Text b generations of computers
- •Text c monitoring weather at portland general electric
- •Lesson 8
- •Text a software package terminology
- •Text b bits of history – software
- •Text c surviving in kuwait
- •Lesson 9
- •Text a types of software
- •Integrated Software
- •Text b the “father” of the mouse
- •Text c data base helps fight on aids
- •Additional materials texts networks supporting the way we live
- •Modern networks
- •Workstation
- •What is dsp?
- •From Analog to Digital
- •Blinding Speed
- •DsPs versus Microprocessors
- •Different dsPs For Different Jobs
- •Dsp Evolution
- •Things that have dsPs
- •Robots Definitions
- •History
- •Early modern developments
- •Modern developments
- •General-purpose autonomous robots
- •Dedicated robots
- •Computer-aided manufacturing
- •Integration with plm and the extended enterprise
- •Basic and the first pc
- •Tools of the trade
- •Is "bug-free" software possible?
- •Prison inmates pass their time with programming
- •All circuits are busy
- •A data base with a view
- •Computer-aided school bus routing
- •Smart workers for smart machines
- •Robotics and the chip
- •The importance of software
- •" I ’ ll have the usual"
- •Exercises
- •Infinitives
- •Topics general information about the usa
- •Usa history, customs and traditions.
- •First programmers
- •My plans for future
- •My future profession
- •Glossary
First programmers
There are many famous peoples who invented and improved the computing devices we use today.
The first programmer is known to be Ada Lovelace, the first legitimate daughter of George Byron.She wrote the code for the intellectual machine of Charles Babbadge.One of the programming languages was called Ada in the memory of this famous woman.This language was created in 1980 after 150 years of the death of Ada Lovelace.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March of 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet on December 25th, 1990. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Brian Behlendorf (Born March 30th, 1973) is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003.
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22nd, 1968 in Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions of it. Rasmus also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies.
Bram Moolenaar (born in 1961, in Lisse, Netherlands) is an active member of the open source software community. He is the author of Vim, a text editor which is very popular among programmers and the users of Free Software.
Robert Matthew Love (born September 25th, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. Love is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify.
My plans for future
What would I like to become? This question worries me greatly. Every job has its challenges and advantages, and to choose the right one is very difficult. A lot of aspects and factors should be taken into consideration. In order to make the right decision we must think twice about our personal goals, likes and dislikes, about the current requirements of our society and its needs for different kinds of professionals.
Finishing secondary school is the beginning of independent life or at least a great step towards it. It is the time when we choose the main direction for our further life, decide what we would like to study next and what we would like to be good at.
Before entering VNTU I decided to become a programmer. I have chosen this profession because it is very interesting and useful. I’m interested in computers and consider them to make an absolutely new world with very wide opportunities.
Having studied for two years I realized, that I want to do something more than just designing PC software. Now I’d like to study foreign languages especially English as I have discovered that communicating with other people from different countries by means of Internet is of great interest to me. Perhaps I’d like to find a job in the sphere of software management. The activity needs ability to work with clients, to organize business communication and to maintain software for different computer systems. So this profession requires both: education in computers and economics as well as communication skills. I think I may have to get second diploma in economics, which means several years of studies, but I’ll do my best to achieve my aim.