History of programming languages Time Programming languages Notable people / organisations 1840s – 1930s Machine language (mechanical instructions) Ada Lovelace Charles Babbage Alonzo Church 1940s Assembly language John Mauchly 1950s FORTRAN, LISP, COBOL Alick Glennie University of Manchester IBM Grace Hopper 1960s B, APL, BASIC Bell Labs
History of programming languages Time Programming languages Notable people / organisations 1970s C, LOGO, Smalltalk, Prolog, SQL Dennis Ritchie, Seymour Papert 1980s C++, MATLAB, Mathematica, Perl Bjarne Stroustrup, Larry Wall 1990s Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, PHP Guido van Rossum, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Sun Microsystems, Brendan Eich, Rasmus Lerdorf 2000s C#, Rust, Julia, Swift Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Viral Shah
High-level programming languages High-level interpreted language Python Usually implemented in a low- level language Code executed directly High-level compiled language Java Usually implemented in a low- level language Code compiled into bytecode Low-level language C, C++, FORTRAN Compilers implemented in a low-level language (often the language itself) Assembly language Per specific computer architecture, e.g. Arm, Intel Machine language Hardware
Raspberry Pi ● Series of single board computers designed for education and making ● Various models: – Cost $5 to $35 ● Manufactured in Pencoed, Wales ● 19M units sold to date
Raspberry Pi Foundation ● Educational charity founded in 2009 ● Based in Cambridge ● Aims to democratise computing ● Owns Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd, who make the Raspberry Pi computer
Raspbian operating system ● Free Linux-based OS for Raspberry Pi ● Comes bundled with programming and educational tools ● Also available for your PC/Mac as “Raspberry Pi Desktop x86”
Langauge Print command Compiled? Implementation Scratch say Interpreted Smalltalk (V1) / ActionScript (V2) Python print Interpreted C (and others, including Python) Ruby puts Interpreted C JavaScript console.log Interpreted C++ Bash echo Interpreted C Perl print Interpreted C Java System.out.println Compiled C++ (JVM) C printf Compiled C / C++ C++ cout Compiled C / C++
Say "Hello world" back ● Find my article "10 Hello world programs for your Raspberry Pi" on opensource.com ● Find my GitHub repository of these programs and more at github.com/bennuttall/hello-world-raspberry-pi ● Contribute your own programs and suggestions!