Pionieer Women Of Programming
Ada, Jean, Grace and Margaret
Do you know these women - Ada Lovelace, Jean Jennings, Grace Hopper or
Margaret Hamilton?
If not already, then it's time! Because these women and their colleagues
were the pioneers of programming. Not just the woman pioneers, no really
the pioneers too.
Ada Lovelace, a mathematician, is considered
one of the founders of computer science. As early as the 19th century
she programmed a mechanical calculating machine, a forerunner of the
computer. In his Konrad Zuse novel "The Woman For Whom I Invented the
Computer", the German author Friedrich Christian Delius tells how Konrad
Zuse (could have) started designing his computing machines 100 years
later, in deep memory of Ada.
Jean Jennings and her team members, in sum
six female mathematicians, did the programming and testing work in the
ENIAC programm during the 2nd world war, finished in 1946.
Margaret Hamilton, as one lead software
engineer of Project Apollo, coined the term “software engineering.”
Grace Hopper joked in 1967: "Programming is
like preparing dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so
that it is ready when you need it. That is only possible with patience
and an eye for detail. Women are natural talents at programming." At the
same time, she was the inventor of the computer bug, the compiler and
the COBOL programming language.
==> If these facts inspire you, celebrate with all women in tech
the Ada Lovelace Day, on 11th of October!
