Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES KRISTI LEW BRITANNICA BEGINNER BIOS ADA LOVELACE MATHEMATICIAN AND FIRST PROGRAMMER
WHO WAS ADA LOVELACE Ada King Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician She wrote a program that could have been carried out by an early form of computer Therefore she is considered by many to be the first computer programmer Computers are machines that work with information This information can be in the form of Ada King Countess of Lovelace wrote programs for an early form of computer Her computer programs were the first ones ever to be published 4 CHAPTER ONE
WHO WAS ADA LOVELACE numbers words pictures movies or sounds Computer information is also called data Computers can work with huge amounts of data and produce results very quickly They also store and display data An English inventor and mathematician named Charles Babbage dreamed up the first computer in the 1830s Babbage’s machine did not run on electricity like today’s computers computers because scientists did not yet know how electricity Charles Babbage developed plans for the first computer in the mid-1830s He designed it to be able to perform any arithmetic operation Vocabulary A PROGRAM is a set of step-by-step instructions that tell a computer to do something with data 5
