Nt1310 Unit 9 Final Project

Upon graduating from Midshipman’s School for Women, Hopper immediately received a task to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation in Harvard University. At that time, when she was around 37-38 years old, Hopper had visited Cruft Laboratory, and she was introduced to a machine that had computing capability called the Mark I. Hopper’s task was to program the Mark I, so it could produce "the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents by next Thursday." Due to this short deadline, Hopper was quite horrified, so she asked some of her colleagues for assistance. Soon enough, she was able to complete this difficult task, and she was the third person to program a large-scale digital computer. In 1945, Hopper had discovered that a real moth

When she was forty years old in 1946, she was divorced, and Hopper still had no children. In the time following that, Hopper quit her job at Vassar, and she continued to be a researcher at Harvard’s Laboratory. Shortly thereafter, Hopper decided to leave Harvard, and she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician when she was about 43 years old in 1949. There, she programmed the BINAC, or the Binary Automatic Computer, using a code called C-10. Hopper’s work allowed future development of the UNIVAC I and II, two of the earliest commercial computers. As Hopper was programming, she taught herself to work in octal in order to make the programming of the BINAC easier. However, she would occasionally make mistakes, and as she was doing so, she would often lose money from her

However, in 1955, another company named Sperry Corporation merged with Remington Rand Corporation. Three years before this in 1952, however, Hopper developed the first compiler called the A-0 System. This compiler could translate mathematical code into code that the machine could understand. In fact, this compiler was so efficient, but no one even decided to use the compiler outside of Sperry Corporation. Due to this, Hopper was rather disappointed, and she said, “I had a running compiler, and nobody would touch it.... It was a selling job to get people to try it, ... because people are so allergic to change.” Then, Hopper published a paper that described about compilers in that same year. Shortly after this, Hopper again developed a new compiler called the B-0 complier, and it was later known as FLOW-MATIC. By then, computer scientists realized that a new computer language was needed that could be understood by everyone. Keeping this in mind, they helped to create COBOL, or Common Business-Orientated Language, and they used FLOW-MATIC as a basis for creating COBOL. At the same time, the Navy had asked Hopper to retire since she was too old for military requirements. However, the Navy had asked her to come back again within a year because a serious payroll problem had occurred. This event had made