Friday, July 20, 2012

The first Programmer of all time

The first Computer programmer in the world was a 27 year old woman named Ada. She was the daughter of a Mathematician and a great poet , she married a mathematician .


She may also have been a writer, Ill have to look that up. She was fiends with Charles Dickens . 


She was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron (with Anne Isabella Milbanke, 11th Baroness Wentworth). She had no relationship with her father, who died when she was nine. As a young adult, she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with a set of notesof her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program — that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Though Babbage's engine has never been built, Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities

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