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The Birth of Computer Programming
Title: The Birth of Computer Programming
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2055 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Birth of Computer Programming
In a world of men, for men, and made by men, there were a lucky few women who could stand up and be noticed. In the early nineteenth century, Lovelace Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, made her mark among the world of men that has influenced even today’s world. She was the “Enchantress of Numbers” and the “Mother of Computer Programming.” The world of computers began with the futuristic knowledge of one Charles Babbage and one Lady Lovelace, who appeared to know more …showed first 85 words of 2055 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 2055 total…named after its mother in 1977 by the U.S. Department of Defense. The language is called “ADA.”
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