• Question: Before the first computer was programmed, how did someone know how to program a computer?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lynne Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      The first computers were designed to understand a simple code that the programmer introduced. Computers only know how to read a program because someone has given it instructions on how to interpret the code. So the programmer came up with the code before the computer existed.

    • Photo: Daren Fearon

      Daren Fearon answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      Because the designed the computer to understand the code from the programmer. The first programmable computer was called the Z1 and was designed by Konrad Zuse. It is much much bigger than computers we have today!

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