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More Teaching Computing
In my last post I talked about teaching Jim how to program using my favorite language, Ruby. Rather than focusing on the syntax and semantics of the Ruby language we are focusing on how to design and build software. There … Continue reading
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Machines I Have Known
The first machine I ever programmed was a UNIVAC 1, in 1957, as an undergraduate at Harvard. Although I did not know it at the time, Sperry-Rand Corporation had given this machine to Harvard the previous year. Apparently not even … Continue reading
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Tagged Bell Labs, computing history, Harvard, M.I.T., TX-2, UNIVAC
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