We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages.

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Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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