What are the things that a programmer must know (obviously besides programming languages)?
(The spelling mistakes were all deliberate BTW, it was a simpler time back then).
It was invented by Charles Babbage, the father of computing and he called it the Analytic Engine.
Babbage used punch cards to allow the monstrous machine to be programmable.
It is the reader that makes the Analytic Engine innovative.
Babbage sadly never managed to build a working version, because of ongoing conflicts with his chief engineer.
It seems even back then, CEOs and devs didnt get a long.
To her translation, she added her own extensive notes.
In one of her notes, she described an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers.
Did Lovelace go onto a life of Ted Talks (or whatever the Victorian equivalent was)?
Sadly not, she died at the age of 36, but her legacy thankfully lives on.
A moth was discovered stuck in a relay and thereby hindering the operation.
Before it was recorded on her note, the moth had been debugged from the system.
On her note, she wrote, First actual case of bug being found.
Using the front-panel test switches, the game allowed two players to take control of two tiny spaceships.
It became your mission to destroy your opponents spaceship before it destroyed you.
If you bumped into it, boom!
You lost the battle.
Significant improvements were made later in the spring of 1962 by Peter Samson, Dan Edwards and Martin Graetz.
They never copyrighted it.
Besides, they were hackers who wanted to do it to show their friends.
So they shared the code with anyone who asked for it.
He defined it as computer virus.
The virus itself was benign and only created to prove that it was possible.
Later he created a positive virus called compression virus.
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