If you are a Competitive Coder, you might have seen some time in questions there is a woman named "Ada". Well if you don't know why they chose this name, then let me tell you, the First Programmer of the World was "Ada Lovelace".
An English mathematician and scholar, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815-27 November 1852), was primarily known for her work on the proposed mechanical general-purpose machine, the Analytical Engine, by Charles Babbage.
Some say she is the first to realize that the computer has uses beyond pure computation, and to publish the first algorithm intended for such a machine to be carried out. As a result, she is often recognized as one of the first computer programmers to understand the full potential of computers and as one of the first.
Ada translated an article on the calculating engine by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea between 1842 and 1843, supplementing it with an elaborate collection of notes, simply called 'Notes'. In the early history of computers, Lovelace's notes are important, containing what many consider the first computer program to be, that is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine.
Other scholars dispute this opinion and point out that the first programs for the engine are found in Babbage's personal notes from the years 1836/1837. She also created a vision of the potential of computers to go beyond mere calculation or number-crunching, although many others concentrated only on those capabilities, including Babbage himself.
Her "poetical science" mentality led her to raise questions about the Analytical Engine (as seen in her notes), exploring how individuals and culture as a collective tool contribute to technology. At the age of 36, she died of uterine cancer in 1852.