How deep is the history of computer programming?

At least 2300 years, to Euclid, whose algorithm for computing greatest common divisor is still in use. Of course Euclid didn't use a modern computer to implement his algorithm, but computer programming is (mostly) not about the hardware. read more

FIRST HIGH LEVEL COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE USED: FORTRAN Backus, 1954 * Invented by John Backus of IBM in 1954. * It was released commercially in 1957. * A high level of programming language is one that is far removed from the computer's instruction architecture. It is typically more user friendly than low level programming languages. read more

Deep Blue prototype played the computer program Wchess to a draw while Wchess was running on a personal computer. In round 5 Deep Blue prototype had the white pieces and lost to the computer program Fritz 3 in 39 moves while Fritz was running on an Intel Pentium 90 MHz personal computer. read more