COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
Question
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Who is recognized as the first computer programmer?
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Charles Babbage
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Howard Aiken
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Blaise Pascal
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Ada Lovelace
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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: -Ms. Lovelace’s program could not be executed, as it was written in the machine language of the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer which was never built.
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