Introduction to Computer Science 1

Summaries for the articles required to be read in part 1 (of 12 parts) for the course 'Introduction to Computer Science)

Summary of article ''History of Computation"

The first modern day concept of computer was developed in Harvard University (a prominent University in USA) in the 40's (article on this)

Nevertheless, the history of computing itself started very early in human history, as early as prehistory (the tally sticks as device for computing). The tally sticks were still used for rural commerce agreements in Europe(!) up to the end of 19th century.

The story follows as how the archaeologists have unearthed devices for computing from prehistory to the first digital (and not analog anymore) computer in 1940 and '50s.

Summary of article 'The History of Computing Hardware'

In this article, even our fingers in collaboration with a method for counting is reffered as a prototype of computing hardware.

(to be continued after some clarifications with the other students/tutors and familiarizing myself more with the general workings of the wiki website technology, I only know how to push a button to add my siganture name and date, so far.)