COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Who was considered as the “First Computer Programmer” and worked with Charles Babbage during the development of his two engines?
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Konrad Zuse
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Thomas De Colmar
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Augusta Ada Byron
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Herman Hollerith
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Babbage is also known for his association with mathematician Ada Lovelace, who translated a French paper about Babbage’s Analytical Engine and, in her own annotations, published how it could perform a sequence of calculations, thereby creating the first computer program.
Detailed explanation-2: -Consequently, many profiles of the figure of Ada Lovelace celebrate her as the first computer programmer in history. However, in reality, the program was not her doing. For years a controversy has raged about the degree of participation of Babbage in the notes of Lovelace.
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