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Codes and coding
A series of programmes to help unscramble the mysteries of coding.
Future Speak
Tom Armitage decodes digital literacy for the so-called 'second machine age'.
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Cryptography—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
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Fortran—Codes that Changed the World
Aleks Krotoski explores the language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.
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Cobol—Codes that Changed the World
Deeply unpopular, but 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it. Why?
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Basic—Codes that Changed the World
As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic.
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Java—Codes that Changed the World
The language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
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The Tower of Babel—Codes that Changed the World
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
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The Alphabet—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg investigates how sounds turned into signs and signs became the alphabet.
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