Fun Facts About Coding

  • The world's first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843.
  • The term "debugging" comes from an incident in 1947 where Grace Hopper, a computer programmer, found a moth inside a computer and removed it to fix a problem.
  • The first computer virus was created in 1983 by a high school student named Fred Cohen.
  • The first website ever created was built in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
  • The programming language Python is named after the Monty Python comedy group.
  • The first electronic computer, called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was created in 1946 and took up an entire room.
  • The programming language Java was originally called Oak.
  • The term "open source" was coined in 1998 by Christine Peterson to describe software that is freely available and can be modified by anyone.
  • The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964.
  • The programming language C was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs.