War Forced Us to Invent Programming | Computer Science for Everyone #2

Описание: In Episode 2 of **Computer Science for Everyone**, we move from ideas to necessity.

During World War II, small calculation mistakes were no longer small — they cost lives. Humans could not compute fast or accurately enough, and the world needed a different kind of machine.

This urgency led to ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers, built not for convenience but survival.

Then came a new problem: controlling machines was harder than building them.

Bell Labs began searching for a way to communicate with computers efficiently. From Multics to early UNIX experiments, Ken Thompson explored how humans could command machines logically.

Assembly language gave control.
BCPL gave structure.
Dennis Ritchie combined both worlds and created the C language — the foundation of modern software.

In this episode you’ll understand:
• Why computers became necessary during war
• Why programming languages had to be invented
• How UNIX thinking shaped modern development
• Why C still powers operating systems today

This is the moment computers stopped being machines… and started becoming tools.

Next: how abstraction made programming accessible to humans.
#ComputerScienceForEveryone #AmCoder #CSJourney #LearnComputerScience #ProgrammingFundamentals #ThinkLikeEngineer #SoftwareOrigins

#WW2History #ENIAC #BellLabs #UnixHistory #KenThompson #DennisRitchie #CLanguage #BirthOfProgrammingLanguages #HistoryOfTechnology

#ProgrammingLanguages #SystemsProgramming #OperatingSystems #HowSoftwareWorks #LowLevelProgramming #AssemblyLanguage #BCPL #UnixPhilosophy

#CodingForBeginners #DeveloperMindset #TechEducation #STEMLearning #EngineeringKnowledge #ConceptualLearning

#ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfTechnology #DigitalWorld #HowComputersWork