Meet Ada Lovelace, a woman credited for having written the first computer program…had computers existed.
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the famous British poet, Lady Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was encouraged by her mother to forsake the Arts and concentrate instead on Mathematics. Showing a great aptitude, she quickly impressed Charles Babbage, also a mathematician, who nicknamed her the “Enchantress of Numbers.”
Charles Babbage, known as the father of computers, created the Analytical Engine. Though it was never built, it’s considered to be the first design for a computer. A memoir was written by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea about the proposed machine and Lady Lovelace was asked to translate it into English. However, she accompanied the piece with her own notes. The notes were longer than the memoir itself and included in complete detail a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. Had it been built, they would have run correctly.
Based on this work, Lovelace is now widely credited with being the first computer programmer and her method is recognised as the world’s first computer program.
So take that Geek Boys of the world!
Yo…you just got learned…again.
