This is a bit of history and trivia. Do you know whom thee first person was that wrote a program and when??? Also who was the first person to successfully run a program on a computer???? Scroll down for the answer, but try to guess first.
British countess and mathematician https:///wiki/Ada_Lovelace is popularly credited as history's first to write a program for a computing machinery, as she was the first to write and publish an https:///wiki/Algorithm intended for implementation on https:///wiki/Charles_Babbage's https:///wiki/Analytical_engine, in October 1842, intended for the calculation of https:///wiki/Bernoulli_number[8] Her work never ran because Babbage's machine was never completed to a functioning standard in her time.
The first person to successfully run a program on a functioning modern electronically based computer was pioneer https:///wiki/Computer_scientist https:///wiki/Konrad_Zuse, who achieved this feat in 1941
Who Was the first software developer and programmer
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Ah thanks for the information tsr. Always learning something here in the Community.:)
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