I would say his mother. Some would argue that it was his father, but because his mother gave birth to him, it makes sense that it was her. On a serious note, what do you mean? Do you mean programming LANGUAGE?
Ada Lovelace
Tim Berners-Lee
Edward Perkins was South Africa's first black computar programmer.
George Bush
me
She was the first computer programmer.
She WAS. She has been dead for over 150 years. She worked with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first multi purpose computer, and she is believed to be the first computer programmer.
She is credited as being the first computer programmer, having written the first algorithm intended for processing by a machine.
Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace
She was the first "programmer".
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nobody, transistors aren't programmed.