Intro; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Programs as Texts and Artefacts; 1.2 The Background to the 1945 Manuscript; 2 Sorting and Collating; 2.1 Punched Card Machines; 2.2 The Unification of Sorting and Computing; 2.3 Internal and External Sorting; 2.4 Algorithms for Internal Sorting; 3 EDVAC and Its Codes; 3.1 The Bell Labs Relay Computer; 3.2 The First EDVAC; 3.3 The Second EDVAC; 3.4 Substitution; 4 The 1945 Meshing Routine; 4.1 Defining the Problem; 4.2 An Algorithm for Meshing; 4.3 Sequence Programming; 4.4 Coding with Variables; 4.5 Allocating the Short Tanks

4.6 Making a Single Code Sequence4.7 Loading and Calling the Meshing Routine; 4.8 Process Overview; 5 Planning and Coding; 5.1 The IAS Machine and Its Code; 5.2 Programming With Diagrams; 5.3 The Meshing Routine; 5.4 The Sorting Routine; 5.5 Planning and Coding; 5.6 The Final Versions of the Sorting Routines; 6 Subroutines; 6.1 Master and Subsidiary Routines; 6.2 General Program Sequences; 6.3 Preparatory Routines; 6.4 Diagramming Subroutines; 6.5 Second-Class Citizens; 7 Contexts and Conclusions; 7.1 The Genesis of the General Purpose Computer; 7.2 The History of Programming; 7.3 Planning

7.4 CodingIntroduction to Appendices A and B; Appendix A Von Neumann's Second EDVAC Code; Appendix B Von Neumann's Meshing Routine Manuscript; Appendix References; ; Index