FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The world’s first computer programmer.
A
Grace Hopper
B
Lady Ada Lovelace
C
Charles Babbage
D
Bill Gates
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: -She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.

Detailed explanation-3: -About a century before Konrad Zuse designed the first programmable computing machine, in the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer programme in the world. From a modern perspective, her work is visionary. In her lifetime, her scientific contributions hardly attracted any attention.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ada Lovelace discovered that a computer could follow a sequence of instructions-that is, a program. She is widely known as the first computer programmer, having written extensive notes about Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

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