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  1. Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer | Britannica

    Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine could carry out an extensive sequence of mathematical operations. The example she wrote of one such sequence—how to calculate Bernoulli numbers—is …

  2. Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia

    Though Babbage's personal notes from 1837 to 1840 contain the first programs for the engine, [68][69][70] the algorithm in Note G is often called the first published computer program.

  3. The First Computer: Technology that Changed the World

    Jan 24, 2022 · With programmable computers becoming the norm, the need for storage became obvious, and the first practical stored program computer — the Manchester Baby (later Mark I) — …

  4. Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80

    23 hours ago · Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC—the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer—launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be …

  5. Ada Lovelace and the first computer programme in the world

    About a century before Konrad Zuse designed the first programmable computing machine, in the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer programme in the world.

  6. The First Computer Program - Communications of the ACM

    May 13, 2024 · This article is a description of Charles Babbage’s first computer program, which he sketched out almost 200 years ago, in 1837. The Analytical Engine (AE), the computer for which the …

  7. The First Program in Computing History Who Wrote It and What Was It

    The first program written and executed on ENIAC was developed to calculate ballistic trajectories —complex mathematical equations used to predict the path of artillery shells based on launch angle, …

  8. The Story of the First Programmer — Google Arts & Culture

    Both of these observations are essential in today’s computer programming processes, which gave Ada the reputation of becoming known as the first computer programmer. Her writings were...

  9. The First Computer Programmer - Codecademy

    Jul 27, 2021 · Ada Lovelace: the first computer programmer By these commonly held definitions of computers and programming, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is known as the world’s first computer …

  10. Computers | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History …

    Programmer Arthur Samuels used the 701 to write the first computer program designed to play checkers. The 701 introduction also marked the beginning of IBM’s entry into the large-scale …