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Who was the first programmer to write a program?

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, the English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer
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Who or what was the first (at position 1 in an ordered list) software developer (person involved in the software development process) to compose a piece of software (a set of either published or unpublished machine-intelligible instructions for a specific purpose, possibly with associated documentation)?
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Computer programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first computer program was written for the Analytical Engine by mathematician Ada ... in very general terms, any programming language that allows the programmer to write programs ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming
Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... impressed by Lovelace's intellect and writing ... is now widely credited with being the first computer programmer and ... St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham. First computer program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Who was the first programmer in the history of computer the first ...
She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs that is, encoding an algorithm in a form to be processed by a machine for a machine ...
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Who Was the 1st Computer Programmer? | eHow.com
The lead programmers and, therefore, the first ones to write binary code were John Mauchly (Lead ... How to Become a Computer Programmer. Creating computer programs that people use ...
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5128273_st-computer-programmer.html
Writing Java Programs
Writing Java Programs (notes) by Mary Campione. This trail covers the fundamentals ... with C and C++, if you are an experienced C or C++ programmer, you may want to skim the first few ...
http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/java/tutorial/java/index.html

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