Newsletter #24 April 19, 2017 Essential news, trends, and stories from Codecademy & the world of code This Week in Tech: Programming Turns 70 April 12th, 1947: ENIAC , the world's first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, ran the first code written in the modern paradigm, marking the birth of computer programming as a profession. This first test code ran computations for the hydrogen bomb. ENIAC could perform complex coded operations like loops, seen today in languages like JavaScript , Ruby and Python . These first professional programmers we...