Multiple choice

Who is the first woman programmer in the world?

  1. Ada Lovelace

  2. Michigan Ceam

  3. Cennila Penny

  4. Roopak Kaur
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Explanation

Ada Lovelace is correct. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), is widely recognized as the first computer programmer. She worked on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine - specifically an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers. The other names appear to be fabricated or misspelled - there is no known programmer named Michigan Ceam, Cennila Penny, or Roopak Kaur in early computing history.

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