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The Women Who Programmed ENIAC

Six women programmed the first general-purpose electronic computer

The first general-purpose electronic computer had no keyboard, no screen and no code. So how did six women tell it what to do?

You'll find out

  • What a program was before software
  • How cables turned into a program
  • Why six names went missing

Why it matters

Every app still does what they did by hand: break a problem into steps a machine can follow.

About 3 min6 interactive slides · 5 questionsLesson 159 · Zone 18

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