COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
Question
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First Computer Programmer.
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Lady Ada Lovelace
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William Oughtred
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John Marie Jacquard
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Charles Babbage
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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: -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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