Ever wondered Who Was the First Computer Programmer ? | 🧑💻
In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace became the first computer programmer, inspite of the fact that the Analytical Engine (the computer that she designed the programs for) wasn't ever manufactured.
She was also the first person to suggest that a computer could be more than just an oversized calculator! Her radical idea was that the numerical values produced by the computer could be used to represent something other than numbers: symbols, musical notes or well, pretty much anything... not everyone was convinced.
On June 5, 1833, Lovelace (17) first met computer pioneer, Charles Babbage (40) at a party in London. The two began an unlikely friendship. Despite the incredible powers of Babbage's machines, it took Lovelace to realize their full potential.
In 1842 Luigi Federico Menabrea wrote a paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine. Lovelace translated it from French (8,000 words) into English and added her own notes (20,000 words). Her translation included the first "computer program" and was published in 1843. The computer program gave plans for a series of punch cards that could create a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers.
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