COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1833 Ada Lovelace met the mathematician Charles Babbage, who had designed a calculating machine called the Difference Engine. Lovelace was inspired by the prototype of the Difference Engine and became Babbage’s lifelong friend. Babbage had a new project in mind, a much more-advanced machine, the Analytical Engine.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ada Lovelace is famous for her account of the ‘Analytical Engine’, which we now recognise as a steam-powered programmable computer, designed by nineteenth-century polymath Charles Babbage, but never built.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1821 Babbage invented the Difference Engine to compile mathematical tables. On completing it in 1832, he conceived the idea of a better machine that could perform not just one mathematical task but any kind of calculation.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.