Who is the first programmer in the world?

Who was the world's first computer programmer?

• Answer:

  The world's first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815 -- 27 November 1852) worked with Charles Babbage the inventor of an early mechanical computer, the analytical engine. She developed what is now recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine making her the world's first computer programmer. That is normally considered to have been Ada Augusta countess of Lovelace the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. However she never got to actually run any of her programs on the computer they were written for as it was never built. Some would argue that it was Turing, who developed the concept of a "state machine".