I know of two early computer (in the stored program sense) programming
books.
1951: Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (Wilkes,
Wheeler, & Gill)
1957: Digital Computer Programming (McCracken)
What others were published prior to the McCracken text?
Excluded are lecture compendia and symposia proceedings, such as:
1946: Moore School Lectures
1947: Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating
Machinery
1951: Proceedings of a Second Symposium on Large-Scale Digital
Calculating Machinery
1953: Faster Than Thought, A Symposium On Digital Computing Machines
These were principally about designs for, and experience with, new hardware.
I'm curious about texts specifically focused on the act of programming.
Were there others prior to McCracken?
paul
Seen in my calendar yesterday:
Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
70 years! And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.
Amusingly, though, the next entry is:
Jun 16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
Which suggests that they were able to install the machine and getting
it running in only one day.
Greg
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>From wiki
"The first Univac was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on
March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year.[3][4] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I
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