Who wrote the first computer program?

So how did Ada Lovelace become the world's first computer programmer when there were no computers in the 1800s? Well, there are a lot of different ways to make a computer where the way it works “under the hood”, so to speak, is very similar to modern day computers which are “Turing Complete”. read more

Based on this work Lovelace is now widely considered the first computer programmer and her method is recognised as the world's first computer program. Section G also contains Lovelace's dismissal of artificial intelligence. She wrote that "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. read more

Ada Lovelace, Mathematician Who Wrote the First Computer Program by claire cain miller march 8, 2018 Lovelace thought of math and logic as creative and imaginative, and her writings about computing in the mid-1800s earned her recognition as the first computer programmer. read more