Who is the first lady programmer?
This is an interesting question (I’m a female programmer as well) so I googled it: There were several firsts for woman programmers. First there is the woman that invented the first programming language. Her name is Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray. Mrs. Hopper was a genius in computers and math. She worked for the United States military as did the other women considered the first in their field, however Mrs. Hopper is considered “The Mother of Programming language”. The other firsts (six of them) were hired by the United States military to program into a computer how far, high, and powerful an artillery gunner must fire his weapon to hit a target. Trajectory calculations is what its called. They are Kathleen McNulty, Frances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder, Ruth Lictermann and Marlyn Wescoff. It’s amazing what these women had to go through to get their jobs done. These women were not even considered to be equals to the men that they trained! Remember that in these days, compu
