Programmers, The

Synopsis: A history of some of the main issues in computer software: Collossus, perhaps the first electronic computer; recollections of the pioneer programmers or coders - the women who worked on ENIAC, the first American electronic computer; the world first practical stored program computer EDSAC (original archive footage); the development of the main high-level programmeing languages from the 1960s and 1970s - Fortran and Cobol; crises in the software industry. Participants are mainly academic commentators or compuer coders and operators who had first-hand experiences of the very early machines.
Series: Computing: An Object Oriented Approach, Course M206
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.
Year of production: 1997
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Information technology
Keywords: computers; history of technology

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