Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

The First Computer Programmer (2015x147)


Air date: Oct 06, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Did Jeans Become Popular? https://youtu.be/O1eUwpO76Pw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k The Numerous Bodies Recently Found in Ben Franklin’s Basement https://youtu.be/tp61Yrj5lTA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer all the way back in the mid-1800s, writing the world’s first computer program in 1842. She was also an accomplished mathematician, which was obviously quite rare for women in the era she lived. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/02/in-1842-ada-lovelace-wrote-the-worlds-first-computer-program/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing-complete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

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