COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Grace Hopper was the first person to create a compiler for a programming language and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, an electro-mechanical computer based on Analytical Engine.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ada Lovelace The innovation earned Lovelace the title of the first computer programmer. The daughter of Lord Byron, Lovelace was raised by her mother, Lady Anne Byron, who left Ada’s father just weeks after giving birth in 1815.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the late ‘40s, British mathematician and programmer Kathleen Booth wrote the first assembly language for a computing system she helped build called ARC (Automatic Relay Calculator). An assembly language is a low-level programming language used to directly correspond with machine code.