computer-programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Other suitable candidates, who need not necessarily be mathematicians, will receive training as necessary; but applications with no programming experience will be expected to have made intelligent use of the opportunities which already exist for finding out what computer-programming involves.
ref: 1957 April 6, The United Steel Companies Limited, Department of Operational Research and Cybernetics, “Situations Vacant”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, number 31,719, London, →OCLC, Classified Advertisements, page 3, column 1:
text: Industrial supervision classes already scheduled for the spring semester which begins on Feb. 3 include the following: […] I.S. 86a—IBM Type 407 Control Panel Wiring; I.S. 86b—IBM Type 604 Control Panel Wiring; IS.. 87a—Computer-Programming.
ref: 1958 January 16, “Industrial Supervision Courses to Be Offered: Employes at Kaiser Steel Plant to Enroll”, in The San Bernardino Daily Sun, volume LXIV, number 118, San Bernardino, Calif., →OCLC, page B-4, column 6:
text: ADMINISTRATIVE ASST. IBM. Computer-Programming ..to $900
ref: 1960 July 17, “Accounting”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXIX, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times-Mirror Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, Classified Section, Employment Agencies—Men, page 10, column 4:
text: Scientists paid visits to local industry, so did mathematicians, to play the “fashionable game of computer-programming.”
ref: 1963 December 21, “Queen’s School record in university places: Headmistress draws a distinction between the ability to talk and the ability to write”, in The Chester Chronicle and Cheshire and North Wales Advertiser, number 9,802, Chester, Cheshire, →OCLC, page 10, column 5:
text: It comes as something of a shock to realize that predestination may be just another name for computer-programming. Even more chilling is the thought that man was created merely as an intermediate device, the instrument of God’s producing the perfect machine possessing superhuman powers of intelligence without the nasty concomitants of passions, mortality and bad breath.
ref: 1964 January 29, Eric Nicol, “Opt, man!”, in The Province, 66th year, number 257, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
text: A total of 33 Parsippany High School students are taking a college-level course on computer-programming.
ref: 1964 February 20, “Computer Course for 33 Students”, in The Herald-News, county edition, 92nd year, Passaic, N.J., →OCLC, page 32, column 1:
text: During the week Nancy Donelson works as a speech therapist in the Nashville city schools while her husband Bill studies at Vanderbilt and does computer-programming at the National Life and Accident Insurance Co.
ref: 1964 February 23, Louise Fort, “‘Chare’ Individualists Give Hints”, in The Nashville Tennessean, volume 58, number 299, Nashville, Tenn., →OCLC, page 11-F, column 4:
text: Two years later, she signed up for a CEGEP course in computer-programming, at which point she discovered she no longer qualified for welfare.
ref: 1994 May 16, “Giving self-starters a chance”, in Joan Fraser, editor, The Gazette, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, Editorials, page B 2, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of computer programming.