Computer Programmers facts
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Rather than try to save himself, Abraham Zelmanowitz, computer programmer and 9/11 victim, chose to stay in the tower and accompany his quadriplegic friend who had no way of getting out.
The author of "The Martian" was also a computer programmer for Warcraft 2
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Computer Programmers I managed to collect.
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According to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
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The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace, who in 1842 wrote and published an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli Numbers on Charles Babbage's analytical machine.
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The first computer programmer is considered to be Ada Lovelace, a female mathematician who was the daughter of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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According to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also avid smokers of Marijuana
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Richard Stallman, a software freedom activist and computer programmer, and creator of a good portion of GNU/Linux, has 15 honorary doctorates
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Margaret Hamilton, a self-taught computer programmer, coded the software that landed Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in 1969
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The creator of Bitcoin is still unknown. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the computer programmer who invented the digital currency is a pseudonym and could represent a man, a woman, or even a group of people.
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Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, is regarded as the first computer programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babagge's theroetical Analytical Engine in 1842, over 100 years before the development of the first computer.
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Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron, is widely considered to be the very first "computer programmer" based on her notes for an "Analytical Engine" written more than 150 years ago
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The programmer for the Original Doom, John Carmack, broke into a school to steal an Apple II computer using home-made thermite; he later went to juvenile detention and forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job wrote a computer program that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts.
Computer Programmer Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing using the "@" symbol to send emails and being the first person to send an email in 1971 - source
Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. - source
Edsger W. Dijkstra, the famous Dutch computer science pioneer, when asked about his job during his marriage rite in 1957, answered as "programmer" but the municipal authorities did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer back in the early 1800s - source
On 5 May 2000 two young Filipino programmers created the Iloveyou virus that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers causing US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide. Since there were no laws in the Phils. against writing malware at the time the two were released.
The first programmer for the ENIAC was Jean Bartik, who learned to program the computer with no manual and only by looking schematic diagram as she did not have the clearance to see the computer.
A woman named Augusta Ada King is regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes in the 1800's on using computers to compute algorithms.
Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace was a co-inventor of the first computer and is believed to be the first programmer. Her mother introduced her to mathematics so she wouldn't turn out like her poet father.
The first programmable computer was invented in Nazi Germany
The creator of the first programmable computer (Tommy Flowers, not Alan Turing!) was denied a loan to build more after the war by the Bank of England. They didn't believe it would ever work, and he couldn't tell them he'd already built several for Bletchley Park.
