How was the first computer program invented ?
The first recognized computer program was created by Ada Lovelace in 1842. It was an algorithm written specifically to run on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine (a Turing-complete mechanical computer which Babbage designed, but which he never successfully completed), and was designed to calculate Bernoulli numbers. I don’t know precisely what a Bernoulli number is, nor what algorithm Lovelace used that would produce them (if the machine had been finished and the program had been run on it), so I don’t know how the program itself was designed with regards to its concept. The algorithm was probably described in english, detailing the inputs to the machine that would produce the Bernoulli numbers. >How was it invented if there were no previous programs in order to make possible the creation of the first one ? In one sense, there were no previous programs to make it possible. In fact, most of the early computer programs, even those used in the first electronic computers over 100 years aft
