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Goldstine and von Neumann’s Flow Diagrams: Drawing Programs Before Flowcharts Had a Name

Goldstine and von Neumann’s 1947 planning reports used flow diagrams and assertions to make program structure visible before coding, helping establish diagramming as part of programming method.

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The IAS Machine and the Coding Style That Spread the von Neumann Architecture

The Institute for Advanced Study machine paired a widely copied stored-program architecture with published coding methods, spreading both a hardware model and a style of numerical instruction programming.

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