Who was the father of programming?
Ada Lovelace is often credited as the "father (or rather, Mother) of programming" or the first computer programmer. Ada was an English mathematician and writer who worked with Charles Babbage on the design of his proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is known for writing the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, specifically the Analytical Engine. Her work on the engine, including her notes on the method of using the machine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, is considered the first published algorithm and has led her to be recognized as the world's first computer programmer.