Who was the first programer?

Answer 1

Ada Lovelace is typically considered the first programmer. She corresponded with Charles Babbage, who is credited with the first attempt at a serious, general-purpose computer. Lovelace and Babbage lived in the 19th century. The programming language Ada, developed by the US Department of Defense but commonly used in many different contexts, is named in honor of Ada Lovelace.

Grace Hopper is commonly considered the founder of computer programming. Her language was called, "Autocode." She was the first to use the term compile to refer to translating a program into code that the computer can directly understand. She was actually predated by Konrad Zuse, a German who developed a language he called "Plankalkul". This language never impacted computer science to any degree, however, because Zuse was a German living in the time of World War II, and of course there was a huge divide between Germany and the rest of the world in that time.

Answer 2

The world's first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 -- 27 November 1852) worked with Charles Babbage the inventor of an early mechanical computer, the analytical engine. She developed what is now recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine making her the world's first computer programmer.

That is normally considered to have been Ada Augusta countess of Lovelace the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. However she never got to actually run any of her programs on the computer they were written for as it was never built.

Some would argue that it was Turing, who developed the concept of a "state machine".

Answer 3

It depends on your definition of 'computer' and 'programmer'.

If you accept that a computer is any device that can accept a stored program and process supplied data, then the first computer was arguably Charles Babbage's 'analytical engine'. Then the first programmer for the analytical engine was Babbage's collaborator, Ada Lovelace.

Although the engine was never completed - Ada wrote a series of notes describing how it would be configured to perform a particular calculation - and THIS is widely considered as the first computer program (although it never ran).

Answer 4

The first (known) computer programmer was Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace, more commonly known as "Ada Lovelace," daughter of the British Romantic poet, Lord Byron (of Don Juan fame). Ada began working with a man named Charles Babbage, who is touted as the "father of the modern computer." Lovelace met Babbage when she was 18 years of age through their mutual friend, Mary Somerville.

About a decade prior to their meeting and with funding from the British Government, Babbage had devised and produced the prototype for his difference engine. Lovelace was introduced to the machine and she became infatuated with it. For this reason, she presumably visited Somerville as often as she could from then on. Babbage quickly noticed Lovelace's superb intellect and analytical skills; he called her the "Enchantress of Numbers."

In early 1842, about two decades after Babbage started his work on the difference engine, the British government had pulled the funding for its procurement. Over the previous 20 years, they had invested about £17000 and had not received an actual working engine. Plus, Babbage had started expanding a superior model to the difference engine that he called the analytical engine, which, in the eyes of the government, rendered the difference engine as outdated (fancy that). In the same year, Lovelace attended Babbage's seminar on the analytical engine at the University of Turin.

Lovelace spent the better part of the year appending her notes to a transcript of the seminar that she was commissioned to translate from French to English. Her notes were rather lengthy; in fact, they were longer than the actual memoir. In the last section of notes, she described her Bernoulli numbers algorithm. These notes were republished in 1953, over a century after her death. Since then, her algorithm has been considered the first algorithm intended for processing by a computing machine.

Answer 5

Some would argue that it was Turing, who developed the concept of a "state machine".

Answer 6

The first computer programmer is Lady Augusta Lovelace.

Answer 7

turing,

Answer 8

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