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Charles Babbage gave a lecture about his computing machine in Italy. The transcript was published. Ada Lovelace found this, translated it, and spent 9 months working on it, tripling the length of the report.
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Ada Lovelace is the first person to write a computer algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers.
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The first computers were huge and could not carry out very complicated functions.
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Since the invention of computers, programming has existed. Programmers became a vey important job. It mostly consisted of building or improving current programming languages so that computers could preform more functions faster.
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The first programming language called FORTRAN was mad public on October 15, 1956. It was created by John Backus and others at IBM.
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The Altair BASIC programming language was used to create programs for Altair computers. It was created by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff.
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Python is a multi-purpose programming language that is very prevalent with programmers today.
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Java was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. It is the most popular programming language right now followed by Python.
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The Swift programming language helped create programs for a variety of Apple products, like iOS, macOS, the Apple Watch, and AppleTV.
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Now, programming is used is everyday life. Programmers are now in charge of using existing programs and making websites, video games, apps, and new devices. It is used in tandem with engineers who build complicated machines. The programmers then take that hardware and tell it what to do. This field still has a huge gender gap that needs to be filled.
