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Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Unlike conventional languages which are generally designed either to be compiled to native (machine) code, or to be interpreted from source code at runtime, Java is intended to be compiled to a bytecode, which is then run (generally using JIT compilation) by a Java Virtual Machine.

There are hundreds of programming languages in use today. How can you know which one to learn first? How do you know which ones are the best for your IT field of choice? Well, I can't answer that question for you. But why not start by learning one of the top 10 most popular ones? That way you will always be able to get a job in the IT industry.

Code is the foundation of computing. Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working with a cloud server’s API, the task relies heavily on a programming language.

In this paper, the Python programming language is introduced, and promoted as an excellent choice as a first programming language for anyone who wants to learn programming. We give a brief history and synopsis of what makes it so popular, followed by a series of code examples comparing it to Java. Finally, it is argued that the rise in popularity of the World Wide Web has drastically changed the nature of programming, and that Python is a better general-purpose introductory language than Java, C++, or other traditional high-level languages.

There have been several women behind important advancements in Computer Science. This page briefly describes just a few of them. Meg Whitman has been the CEO of the popular online auction site eBay since March 1998 taking the company from fewer than 100 employees to over 9,000 employees world wide. Meg also was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine in 2004.

The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s by Dennis M. Ritchie an employee from Bell Labs (AT&T). In the 1960s Ritchie worked, with several other employees of Bell Labs (AT&T), on a project called Multics. The goal of the project was to develop an operating system for a large computer that could be used by a thousand users. In 1969 AT&T (Bell Labs) withdrew from the project, because the project could not produce an economically useful system. So the employees of Bell Labs (AT&T) had to search for another project to work on (mainly Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson).

Computer programmers often use the word scalable to describe a desirable feature of a program or algorithm. The idea is that something that is scalable not only works for very small scale jobs but is equally effective (or nearly as effective) when the job in question is much larger (or, more commonly, when the job grows from being small to being large).

Early computer systems were literally programmed by hand. Front panel switches were used to enter instructions and data. These switches represented the address, data and control lines of the computer system.To enter data into memory, the address switches were toggled to the correct address, the data switches were toggled next, and finally the WRite switch was toggled. This wrote the binary value on the front panel data switches to the address specified. Once all the data and instruction were entered, the run switch was toggled to run the program.

APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, RPG... these programming languages are well known and (more or less) loved throughout the computer industry. There are numerous other languages, however, that are less well known yet still have ardent devotees. In fact, these little known languages generally have the most fanatic admirers. For those who wish to know more about these obscure languages -- and why they are obscure -- we present the following catalogue.

Computers are very powerful, looking through large amounts of data quickly. Computers can literally perform billions of operations per second. However, the individual "operations" that computers can perform are extremely simple and mechanical, nothing like a human thought or insight. A typical operation in the language of computers is adding two numbers together.