Augusta Ada: The first programmer

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Augusta Ada was the daughter of the Lord Byron, the English magnate.  Though her father was one of the most influential poets of the English Literature and she had elite blood in her body, she devoted herself to the realm of science. She also passed her childhood with the noble Victorian family.  When Augusta got marriage, she received the title of Countess of Lovelace, and she could spend her whole life relaxing.  But, she left all the bonds of traditional life and became skilled in Mathematics. It was not the end here that she was one of the first computer programmers.

Ada Lovelace was born in London (England) on 10 December 1815. She was the only child of the poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron. When Lady Byron gave birth to a baby girl, our passionate poet didn’t be happy with it and became very disappointed. He expected the baby would be a glorious boy who came out great fame for the family. 

After a couple of weeks later, Byron commanded his wife to leave his house.  It was the first tragic moment for our great mother, and she had to seek shelter from her parents. This separation between the couple crashed into the child's mind.

Ada was often ill since her early childhood. But she faced a critical problem when she was only eight years old.  She suffered headaches that obscured her vision and paralyzed after a bout of measles.  Despite her illness, she enriched her mathematical and technological skills.

At the age of twelve, Ada wanted to fly in the sky like birds. To fulfill her dream, she went to some series of projects and was able to construct wings with imagination and passion. She used various materials such as paper, oil silk, wires, and feathers to make the wins. She also investigated the anatomy of birds so that she could able to master the right proportion between the wings and the body. Charles Babbage, the father of computers, called her "Lady Fairy" for doing this madly dreamt project.

Even though Ada was with her mother, their relationship wasn't much good. As a result, during the teenage, she was easily attracted to her first tutor and engaged in a deep love affair. Her family handled the situation up to prevent a public scandal. This incident wasn’t a good experienced for Ada’s innocent mind. She was going through mental pressure and had her life became unbalanced.

Her private tutor Mar Somerville helped her to get rid of this situation. She introduced her to Charles Babbage in 1833 that was the major turning point of Ada's life. Ada was also lucky to get helped directly from other acquaintances included the scientists Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday, and the author Charles Dickens. They all affectionately loved her for her mathematical abilities and brilliant mind.

When Babbage was working on the first mechanical general-purpose computer (the Analytical Engine), Ada was interested in working with him. Baggage could not disappoint her because he knew about Ada’s excellent talent at mathematical and scientific concepts. Though the father of the computer wanted to build a simple machine for pure calculation, Ada was finding much beyond pure calculation. She was trying to build the first algorithm so that the machine would be able to work more sufficiently. She worked hard until the success came and became the first person to recognize the full potential algorithm for your personal computer.

The lifetime of our first programmer was not very long. She was diagnosed with uterine cancer and died at the age of 36 on 27 November 1852. But she still alive in our mind.