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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The first machines that you could safely call a computer were invented by a scientist who didn’t quite know what to do with them. He had sketched a couple of ideas for how the primitive contraption might be programmed, but never really took it upon himself to get it done. Enter his assistant Ada, young, full of energy and armed with a stupendous math education. She sat down with the machine Babbage created and wrote the first programs it would operate on, essentially providing proof of concept for the computer/program paradigm we enjoy today.
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