The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. With special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. "The first textbook on computer programming". This item is unavailable.The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. With special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. "The first textbook on computer programming"

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. …