It's Ada Lovelace Day! 👩‍🔬 Meet pioneering mathematician, Ada Lovelace, regarded by many as the first computer programmer. | English Heritage

In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, created what is widely regarded as the world’s first computer algorithm. long before actual computers existed. Working with Charles Babbage on his proposed Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer, she translated and expanded an article about the machine. In her notes, she described a method for the Engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, making it the first published algorithm intended for a machine. Lovelace also f