COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ was the first lady programmer who suggested Binary Data storage
A
Augusta Ada Lovelace
B
Augusta Merwin
C
Augusta Agnes
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace is known as first computer programmer because she was the person who suggested Charles Babbage to use binary number system in his Analytical engine and operated it for the first time.

Detailed explanation-2: -Her scientific work, which is outstanding – regardless of the person behind it. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -It turns out that long before the first computer was invented, Lovelace had come up with the idea for a computer language. Lovelace died on November 10, 1852, more than a hundred years before her notes were rediscovered. But because of her advanced way of thinking, she’s often considered the first computer programmer.

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