History of Programming and JavaScript

A brief history of programming

The earliest computers were programmed using punched cards to represent a binary number system, the number system that computers use. The binary system is made up entirely of $1$s and $0$s that loosely translate to “on” and “off.” On the cards, a hole represented $1$ and no hole $0$ . After this, people started to develop languages that could be used to “speak” to the computer.

The first computer programs were written in machine code and assembly language. These are low-level programming languages that are closely associated with a computer’s hardware. This means they can be difficult languages to program in ...