I dont know if we are supposed to find some info from the web to contribute for this first blog post... someone please let me know if we are...its nice to meet everyone and i look forward to fun semester in IS 215! I am a senior, although i did go to WCC for 2 years prior to transfering to Eastern..i really like it here so far :) I am an international business major, with a concentration in marketing, and a minor in spanish. i am hoping to study abroad this fall in Spain. Cant wait to get to know everyone.
Lauren Martin
Lauren Martin
The history of computers we learned about was amazing! I am not very technically savvy, so to hear that the first computers were machines that read punched cards was like, "whoa, it started out that simple?" I feel like now its so advanced i can barely keep up. I went to Wikipedia and looked up computers and read a little more about the Jacquard loom, one of the first computers.
It was invented in 1801, by Joseph Marie Jacquard, and was made so that people could weave intricate patterns quickly. It works by reading punched cards, "it was the first machine to use punch cards to control a sequence of operations." Each hole in the puch card corresponds to a hook, which can either be up or down causing the thread to be placed appropriatly. "The ability to change the pattern of the loom's weave by simply changing cards was an important conceptual precursor to the development of computer programming."(Wikipedia)
What I did is that I followed the guidelines from the Writing Assignments handout and wrote about the theme of what we did in class. I took some stuff from the web, but I guess you don't have to.
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