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What mathematician can be considered the first programmer?
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As The New Yorker reported, Ada Lovelace had her mother’s mathematical aptitude and her father’s imagination, which made her an ideal candidate to translate information about and mathematically perfect an early ancestor of the computer by Charles Babbage. The clear way she described the potential she saw in Babbage’s device would be foundational to computer science at large.
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What mathematician can be considered the first programmer?
- Frances E. Allen
- Elizabeth J. Feinler
- Ada Lovelace
- Grace Hopper
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