Preparation Programs Electronic Digital Computer by Wilkes (6 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; Reading, 1957. Hardcover. Second Edition. A Very Good, red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some handling/scuffing to boards, rubbing along board and spine edges, handwritten ink name top front free endpaper, some age toning to text block, slightly cocked, without Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]., 238pp., appendix, bibliography, indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 196. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1951 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 196.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo., (14) + ( 1 part) + 167 + (1 blank) + (2 index) pages complete including 2 photo plates as frontis. Publisher's grey/brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Original white end papers. Covers : rubs top/bottom odf spine and corners, fade of gilt lettering on spine else clean and unmarked. Contents : very clean, unmarked and unfoxed. Clean copy. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. "The first textbook on computer programming." [OOC 1030] First edition, first printing, label of Scientific Computing Service Limited, London (the English distributors) tipped onto the title page. Mimeo errata sheet [often missing] tipped into rear endpapers. Wilkes was director of the Mathematical Laboratory of the Univ. of Cambridge and, with Wheeler and Gill, EDSAC at Cambridge. "One of the most influential textbooks of this early era . The form of constructing programs and how they should be linked together to form a load module, as described in this book, reappears many times for different computers being constructed in different countries. It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about creating a computing system rather than simply providing a bit of hardware to be used only by a few specialists." [Williams 1985, 337]. Minor shelf/edge wear, distributor ticket on title page, errata tipped in at rear, gilt at spine toned, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 167 plus Index.

Condition: 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 (a "significant proportion of the programmer recruits were female mathematics graduates from universities in the south-east of England," writes Simon Lavington). Known as the first book on computer programming, and proportionately influential, THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS was likely a major part of Woods's initial training; her neat annotations record her own additions, substitutions, and adjustments to the sample subroutines provided. In 1952, Woods led an effort to secure an official policy guaranteeing pay equality for male and female programmers and remarkably succeeded, though women programmers continued to struggle for equal time on the much-in-demand machine, shared with university users. In an interview years later, she recalled: "You'd be in a very deep sleep, and to be woken up although you were dying to get on to the computerto be woken up in the middle of the night was not very good, when your turn came! However, it was worth it. You had black coffee, and had to go on the computer." A remarkable association copy, capturing an early moment in the history of computer programming. 9'' x 6''. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Illustrated with two black-and-white plates. 167, [3] pages. Pencil to front free endpaper with owner's signature of "M.L. Woods" in block capitals; pencil note to rear endpaper; occasional neat and unobtrusive pencil annotations throughout. Seller's label from Scientific Computing Service Limited of London neatly mounted to title page. Spine sunned; lettering faded. Moderate bumping and edgewear.

HARD BACK RED. Condition: GOOD. SECOND ED. General wear and foxing otherwise very good condition. Contains b&w photos DATE PUBLISHED: 1957 EDITION: SECOND ED 238.