eli5 how did Ada Lovelace invent “the first computer code” before computers existed?

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as the title says. many people have told me that Ada Lovelace invented the first computer code. as far as i could find, she only invented some sort of calculation for Bernoulli (sorry for spelling) numbers.

seems to me like saying “i invented the cap to the water bottle, before the water bottle was invented”

did she do something else? am i missing something?

edit: ah! thank you everyone, i understand!!

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She basically wrote the recipe before the kitchen was built. Her codes were theoretical math problems that computers would later solve.

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