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The Story of Computing

Programs are older than computers. Follow the idea from Baghdad's House of Wisdom through weaving looms, brass gears and vacuum tubes to the chip in your phone, and compare how people wrote code in each age with how it is written today.

3 lessons 36 min 165 XP

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Lessons

1⚙️Before electricityAlgorithms, programmable automata, punched cards and the first program were all invented before the first computer.12 min55 XP
2💡The electronic ageRelays, vacuum tubes, transistors, chips: each generation of switch made computers smaller, faster and cheaper.12 min55 XP
3⏳How coding changedFrom plugging cables to typing a sentence: each generation of tools removed one burden from the programmer.12 min55 XP