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Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc, 1951. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this early and important work in computer programming. PREPARATION contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Known as the first textbook on computer programming, and proportionately influential, THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS captures an early and defining moment in the history of computer programming. As scholar Michael R. Williams has written: "EDSAC holds a prime place in the history of the world's first computers, not only because it was the first full-scale operational electronic digital computer, but because its ability to construct programs from relocatable subroutines, and to link them together at load time, provided a model for almost all others to follow. [...] It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about creating a computing system" 9'' x… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc, 1951. Very good plus.. First edition, important association copy of this early work in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee). This book contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Mary Lee Woods (later Berners-Lee), to whom this copy belonged, was a member of the working group responsible for developing the Ferranti Mark 1, aka the Manchester Electronic Computer: the first commercially available digital computer, completed and delivered a year ahead of the U.S.-developed UNIVAC I. In 1951, the year of this text's publication, Woods returned from a disappointing Australian astrophysics fellowship and was swiftly recruited by Ferranti's team in Manchester, though she had never programmed before… Read More