The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (sometimes called WWG, after its authors' initials) was the first book on computer programming. Published in 1951, it was written by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill of Cambridge University. The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world.
- Author
- David Wheeler (computer scientist)
- Author
- David Wheeler (computer scientist)
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- Maurice Wilkes
- Author
- Maurice Wilkes
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- Stanley Gill
- Author
- Stanley Gill
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- enThe cover of the second edition, 1957
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- enThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (sometimes called WWG, after its authors' initials) was the first book on computer programming. Published in 1951, it was written by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill of Cambridge University. The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world.
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- enThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (sometimes called WWG, after its authors' initials) was the first book on computer programming. Published in 1951, it was written by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill of Cambridge University. The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world.
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- The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
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- enThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
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- www.vintage-icl-computers.com/EDSAC
- archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk
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- Ada Lovelace
- Addison-Wesley
- API
- Assembly language
- Cambridge University
- Category:1951 non-fiction books
- Category:Addison-Wesley books
- Category:Computer programming books
- Category:Handbooks and manuals
- Complex numbers
- Computer
- Computer programming
- Core dump
- David Wheeler (computer scientist)
- Debugging
- Definite integral
- EDSAC
- File:FirstCodeLibrary-ESDAC-ThePreparationOfProgramsForAnElectronicDigitalComputer-1951.jpg
- Filing cabinet
- First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
- Fourier transform
- Implementation
- John von Neumann
- Library (computer science)
- Library catalog
- Maurice Wilkes
- Punched tape
- Quadrature of the Parabola
- Reference (C++)
- Reference (computer science)
- Standard library
- Stanley Gill
- The Internet Archive
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- enThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
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- enThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
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- Computer programming
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- 1951
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley
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- Addison-Wesley
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- Q105972897
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- enComputer programming
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- Category:1951 non-fiction books
- Category:Addison-Wesley books
- Category:Computer programming books
- Category:Handbooks and manuals
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