Summary

Grace Hopper was an United States Navy officer and an American Computer scientist. Grace started being Computer Scientist in 1944, and she was a Navy officer from 1943 to 1986. She was born on December 9th, 1906 in New York City, U.S.A. During her navy career, she met the Mark 1 Computer and, it made her started to think about the clocks she had taken apart during her childhood. So, she took the Mark 1 Computer apart part by part. Then, she noticed that inside the computer was just like a library. After a while, she figured out how to use easier or more human understandable languages to communicate with computers.

Sadly, everyone did not believe in Grace. They thought it was impossible for computers to understand human language. Finally, in 1952 a senior gave Grace a chance to present her invention. So Grace took the chance and, presented the first computer program in the world. Which was called the A-0 compiler. Then, she made more versions of A-0, which are, A-1, A-2, A-3, and B-0. Which is the programing language, COBOL.

Fun Facts

Did you know that the phrases “bug” and “debug” were made by Grace. Referring to computer errors. Did you know that Grace once had found a moth in her computer?! Then, she taped the moth inside her notebook! Did you know that 80% of businesses in the world uses COBOL? Fun fact: Grace had taken apart enough clock in her house at the age of 7 to know how clocks work!