Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Computing has come a long way since we figured out that 1s and 0s were pretty useful. In today's video, we look at the history of programming from the Turing machine to modern JavaScript...

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🔖 Topics Covered
- Alan Turing
- Werner Buchholz
- Kathleen Booth
- John McCarthey
- Edsger Dijkstra
- Dennis Ritchie
- Ken Thompson
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- Anders Hejlsberg
- Guido Van Rossum
- James Gosling
- Brendan Eich