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'''Ada Lovelace''' is widely credited as "the first computer programmer"<ref>www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf from Scientific American, May 1999</ref>, though there are diverse opinions on this, since the computer had not yet been invented. The claim arises from the fact that she was first to publish a paper (in 1843) containing a mathematical algorithm ''encoded for the purpose of being executed by an automatic digital computer''. That computer was the "analytical engine" designed by [[Charles Babbage]]. It was never built, because Babbage's design was way ahead of its time. The program calculated [[Bernoulli numbers]].
'''Ada Lovelace''' is widely credited as "the first computer programmer"<ref>www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Ada_and_the_First_Computer.pdf from Scientific American, May 1999</ref>, though there are diverse opinions on this, since the computer had not yet been invented. The claim arises from the fact that she was first to publish a paper (in 1843) containing a mathematical algorithm ''encoded for the purpose of being executed by an automatic digital computer''. That computer was the "analytical engine" designed by [[Charles Babbage]]. It was never built, because Babbage's design was way ahead of its time. The program calculated [[Bernoulli numbers]].