What was the name of the computer manual Grace Hopper wrote?
“A Manual for Programming Languages”
“A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator”
“A Manual for Coded Calculators”
“A Manual for Modern Computing”
Answer
“A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator” was a manual written by Grace Hopper. This manual was used to operate the Mark I computer, the first general purpose electronic computer. The Mark I was built by Howard Aiken at Harvard University and was completed in 1944.
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