The first computer programmer was a woman

Meet Ada Lovelace, who wrote the world's first computer program in 1843, nearly a century before modern computers even existed! She collaborated with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer that was never fully built. Lovelace's extensive notes, three times longer than the original article she translated, described an algorithm for the engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers—the first published algorithm specifically for machine processing.