Ep. 125 - Learning to Code in the 1960s (Mary L Gorden)

Mary became a programmer in the late 1960s, back when coding was “barbaric,” as she put it. She takes us through her nearly 40 years of working with computers, starting with the era of punch cards. She shares the joy of using a terminal for the first time, her determination to stay technical even as she climbed the corporate ladder, and how the tools of coding have shifted the programmer’s job description. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom C programming language HTML JavaScript WordPress COBOL FORTRAN Codeland Conf Codeland 2019