BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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The first computer programmer is known as ____
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Charles Babbage
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Ada Lovelace
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Steve Jobs
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Alan Turing
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Celebration of Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer-Scientific American.
Detailed explanation-3: -Augusta Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer, and, since 2009, she has been recognized annually on October 15th to highlight the often overlooked contributions of women to math and science.
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