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TODAY’S GOOGLE DOODLE celebrates the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician and writer, often referred to as the world’s first computer programmer.
Born Augusta Ada Byron in 1815, Lovelace is widely known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine – when she produced the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
During a period over 1842–43, Ada translated Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea’s memoir on the Analytical Engine, explaining the differences between it and the mathematician’s first mechanical computer – the Difference Machine.
Babbage proposed the mechanical computer in 1822 for the purposes of astronomy and mathematics. However, Lovelace saw beyond these applications and, showing remarkable insight for the time, posited that such a machine could also be used to write music.
Ada Lovelace Day is marked each year to honour women in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
Lovelace was the daughter of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, with whom she had no relationship.
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It’s amazing to think a woman had such intellectual foresight.
Also, when you consider only 4.2% of modern computer programmers are actually female this achievement is even more remarkable.
I see a flood of nail varnished red thumbs heading your way.
From looking at your picture, you seem like a lad that usually doesn’t talk like that..
Said in the nicest possible way
I’d imagine clicking on the red thumb will probably be the closest thing to computer programming most of them will ever do.
Dim Red thumbs as Women
If
This is sexist
Then
Loop Until
Red thumbs = 100
End If
End Sub
#include
using redthumbs std;
int main()
{
int counter, howmuch;
cin >> howmany;
counter = 0;
while ( counter < howmany)
{
counter++;
cout << counter << '\n';
}
return 0;
}
you declared howmuch but not howmany. ..
Yeah I know
Only rich nerds are attractive
Where’d you get the stats? my personal experience through uni and in work was around 7% and looks higher if you ask google!
Should have used a for loop.
Tadgh
For i = Who cares it’s a joke
Next i
Was Ada any relation to Linda? Would love to see Google honour her somehow… ;)
That’s too deep for this time of the day!
Don’t worry, the nerds have already honoured Ada’s namesake in their own way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
Error 404 Brain Not Found!
COBOL was created by a woman.
However, no woman has won the Fields Medal for Maths. Women don’t seem to be very logical….as I often point out to my wife.
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