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Women’s History Month — Ada Lovelace, World's 1st Computer Programmer

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WOMEN’S HISTORY ✞ AUGUSTA ADA KING, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852)

The only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron, Ada was an English mathematician and writer known for her work with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine, an early mechanical computer. Because of her work, she is sometimes considered the first computer programmer.

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I revisited my Ada Lovelace piece this week:

Ada, Countess of Lovelace was born into a privileged, noble family in 1815. Like many women born into her class, she was learned in the “ladylike” pursuits of dancing, manners and playing the harp. However, unusually, her mother insisted upon an education that focused on mathematics and science. She grew into a social, vibrant, intelligent and inquisitive woman and enjoyed talking about scientific study and worked on her own projects. One of her friendships was with the English polymath Charles Babbage, who himself was working on building an analytical machine. In her notes, she wrote on how this machine could process Bernoulli numbers - thought by many to have been the first computer program. (Ada also wrote on how this machine could be taught to create music!)

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When we say that Ada Lovelace was arguably the world’s first computer programmer, that “arguably” isn’t thrown in there because of questions of definitions or precedence – she definitely wrote programs for a computer, and she was definitely the first.

Rather, the reason her status as the world’s first computer programmer is arguable is because during her lifetime, computers did not exist.

Yes, really: her code was intended for Charles Babbage’s difference engine, but Babbage was never able to build a working model – the material science of their time simply wasn’t up to the challenge. Lovelace’s work was thus based on a description of how the difference engine would operate.

Like, imagine being so far ahead of your time that you’re able to identify and solve fundamental problems of computer programming based on a description of the purely hypothetical device that would run the code you’re writing.