Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
She is often considered to be the first computer programmer! Lovelace was the first to recognise the full potential of a 'computing machine', suggesting it had applications beyond pure calculations.
(In 1843Ada Lovelace wrote in her notes for a translation of a French article about the Analytical Engine how the machine could be used to follow a program to calculate Bernoulli numbers. For this, she has been called the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. Even though she wrote about a computer, the Analytical Engine, that was never built, she realized that the computer could follow a series of simple instructions, a program, to perform a complex calculation.
Ada Lovelace, whose real name was Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, and daughter to the poet Lord Byron, is widely considered to be the world's first computer programmer, at least in the theoretical sense.
The story of programming is one of evolution. It started in the 1800's with an ambitious young woman named Ada Lovelace, and every day further progress is made through the ingenuity and ambition of our modern programmers, and the many businesses and collaborators who work alongside them.
The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM.
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