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In Maurice Wilkes. Wheeler and Stanley Gill The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (1951), the first book on computer programming. EDSAC was used for research in physics, astronomy, and meteorology, and biochemist John Kendrew used EDSAC to determine the three-dimensional structure of the muscle protein
Kimura I A historical, generalistic, and complementary approach in introductory computer science education Proceedings of the ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, (93-99) Bauer W and Rosenberg A Software Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part II, (993-1007)
The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer With Special Reference to the EDSAC and the Use of a Library of Subroutines by Maurice V. The Preparation of Programs for an Electroni...
Maurice V. Wilkes, one of the authors, finished building the first stored-program electronic digital computer (EDSAC) in 1949. The EDSAC programmer's (Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill) were the first to have practical programming experience using the stored-program architecture.
This is often considered the first book on computer programming. It was written for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer that began operation in 1949 as the world's first regularly operated stored program computer. The idea of a library of subroutines was developed for the EDSAC, and is described in this book.
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The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer With Special Reference to the EDSAC and use of a Library Subroutines. By Maurice V. Wilkes, David J. Wheeler and Stanley Gill. ...
