The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace, in the 1840s.

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Ada Lovelace published notes on Charles Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine in 1843, including a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers — widely considered the first published algorithm intended for a machine.

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