Editing Programmer (section)

==History==
[[File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Ada Lovelace]] is considered by many to be the first computer programmer.<ref name="Fuegi-Francis-2003"/>]]
British [[count]]ess and mathematician [[Ada Lovelace]] is often considered to be the first computer programmer.
She authored an [[algorithm]], which was [[Note G|published]] in October 1842, for calculating [[Bernoulli number]]s on the [[Charles Babbage]] [[analytical engine]].<ref name="Fuegi-Francis-2003">{{Cite journal|last1=Fuegi|first1=J.|last2=Francis|first2=J.|date=October–December 2003|title=Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|volume=25|issue=4|pages=16–26|doi=10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887}}</ref> 
Because the machine was not completed in her lifetime, she never experienced the algorithm in action.

In 1941, German [[civil engineer]] [[Konrad Zuse]] was the first person to execute a program on a working, program-controlled, electronic computer.<ref name="Zuse-IEEE">{{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/konrad-zuse|title=Konrad Zuse|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=2 April 2018|website=computer.org|publisher=IEEE|access-date=4 February 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926131516/https://www.computer.org/profiles/konrad-zuse|archive-date=26 September 2022}}</ref> From 1943 to 1945, per [[computer scientist]] Wolfgang K. Giloi and [[artificial intelligence|AI]] professor [[Raúl Rojas]] et al., Zuse created the first, [[high-level programming language]], [[Plankalkül]].<ref name="Giloi1997">{{cite journal|last1=Giloi|first1=Wolfgang K.|date=1997|title=Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül: The First High-Level 'non von Neumann' Programming Language|url=http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/85.586068|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|volume=19|issue=2|pages=17–24|doi=10.1109/85.586068|access-date=|archive-date=23 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323163140/https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/1997/02/man1997020017/13rRUIJcWqp|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Rojas2000">{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250809396|title=Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and its Implementation|last1=Rojas|first1=Raúl|last2=Göktekin|first2=Cüneyt|last3=Friedland|first3=Gerald|last4=Krüger|first4=Mike|date=February 2000|website=ResearchGate |access-date=4 February 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612225444/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250809396_Plankalkul_The_First_High-Level_Programming_Language_and_its_Implementation|archive-date=12 June 2022}}</ref>

Members of the 1945 [[ENIAC]] programming team of [[Kathleen Antonelli|Kay McNulty]], [[Jean Bartik|Betty Jennings]], [[Betty Holberton|Betty Snyder]], [[Marlyn Meltzer|Marlyn Wescoff]], [[Frances Spence|Fran Bilas]] and [[Ruth Teitelbaum|Ruth Lichterman]] have since been credited as the first professional computer programmers.<ref name="Memorials">{{cite web|url=http://eniacprogrammers.org/eniac-programmers-project/memorials/|title=Memorials|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=16 May 2014|website=ENIAC Programmers Project |publisher=First Byte Productions|access-date=13 March 2021|archive-date=1 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401075605/http://eniacprogrammers.org/eniac-programmers-project/memorials/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ABC071204">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3951187&page=1|title= First Computer Programmers Inspire Documentary|last=Donaldson James|first=Susan|date=4 December 2007 |publisher=ABC News|access-date=13 March 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216054335/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3951187|archive-date=16 February 2013}}</ref>