Who was the father of programming?
Ada Lovelace is often credited as the father (or rather, Mother) of programming or the first computer programmer. Ada was an English mathematician and writer who worked with Charles Babbage on the design of his proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is known for writing the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, specifically the Analytical Engine. Her work on the engine, including her notes on the method of using the machine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, is considered the first published algorithm and has led her to be recognized as the world's first computer programmer.
When was that algorithm written?
In 1843 Lovelace translated a French paper that Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea wrote about the Analytical Engine. She also added thousands of words of her own notes to the paper. The example she wrote of one such sequence—how to calculate Bernoulli numbers—is regarded by computer historians as the first computer program.