{"id":116,"date":"2012-09-18T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2019-07-24T00:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:59:38","slug":"history-of-computing-class-assignment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"History of Computing Class: Assignment 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>one concise paragraph<\/strong>, discuss one technical advance that we&#8217;ve learned about since Sept. 3 and why that advance was important. It can be a machine, a technique (like a programming technique), or a specific idea. Your response should show us its importance in a broad sense: this is your opportunity to answer the &#8220;so what?&#8221; question of why a particular historical event matters. Be original and creative: your response should tell us something non-obvious about the advance you choose.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 204px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1952_hopper-grace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"1952_hopper-grace\" src=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1952_hopper-grace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Hopper with the UNIVAC I, from the Computer History Museum&#8217;s website:<br \/>http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/timeline\/?year=1952 Collection reference: 102635875 (Courtesy Gwen Bell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Please use formal English and write your response as you would a short academic paper. Keep it to one concise paragraph, and make your point as well as you can in that space.<\/p>\n<p>Your comment will not show up right away: I will approve the best 5 or so comments <em>after the deadline<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As noted on your syllabus, your comment is <strong>due by 10pm on Thursday, Sept. 20<\/strong>. There will be no credit given for late responses.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one concise paragraph, discuss one technical advance that we&#8217;ve learned about since Sept. 3 and why that advance was important. It can be a machine, a technique (like a programming technique), or a specific idea. Your response should show us its importance in a broad sense: this is your opportunity to answer the &#8220;so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history-of-computing","category-student-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}