Assignment 3 Reflection

 Assignment Three was extremely fun for me. It gave me the opportunity to learn about the history of Coding together with two of my best friends. Coding and computer science have become increasingly important in recent years, even for myself, in finance, computer science will play a large role in my career. Not only will I need to understand computer science to effectively evaluate tech companies, but a lot of my day-to-day tasks will become automated with the help of computer science as well. My main takeaways from this assignment were:

1) The history of coding is incredibly intertwined

    i) The main languages of coding today have built upon the previous coding languages

2) There are only a few main players in the history of coding

    i) You see a lot of familiar faces in the history of coding, Bill Gates, Oracle, Nokia, IBM, etc.

3) The history of coding is incredibly young

    i) Unlike most other mathematics subjects, coding only really started to gain traction in the 1950s.

4) The history of coding is a lot more privatized than other math histories

    i) The history of most math subjects is largely dominated by scholars and academics, not coding though.         The history of coding is dominated by private companies that are worth billions of dollars.