Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who is considered the world's first programmer ?

  1. Charles Babbage

  2. Ada Lovelace

  3. Indra Gandhi

  4. Denis Ritchie
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Explanation

Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine and wrote what is considered the first computer program - an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers. Her work in the 1840s predates all other programming by nearly a century.

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