12 Greatest Computer Programmers Of All Time

Most of you might be knowing that who is called a Computer Programmer. If you do not know let me tell a computer program is someone who can create and modify computer programs. A computer programmer nowadays has many names like a developer, dev, coder, or software engineer .the Computer Programmer is the specialist in the area of Computer Programming. A multi-talented Computer programmer can write code for many kinds of computers and their software. The one who practices or professes to program can be also known as Programmer Analyst.Computer programmer do learn various programming languages like (Assembly, COBOL, C, C++, C#, Java, Lisp, Python, etc.

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Nature of the Computer Programmers Work 

Computer programmers work include many tough and surprising jobs like writing codes, testing codes, troubleshooting and debugging various problems in the software. Programmers work in many of the settings which include Information Technolgy(IT) departments, big software companies, small firms and for the government too. Well, many of the computer programmers also manage to give consultancy services to the big software companies and various clients. Computer Programmers do write programs according to the specifications that are determined by their senior programmers and program analyst.

Once the design project of the software is passed by the senior programmer and program analyst. Computer Programmer job is to convert the determined design into a logical series of instruction which will furtherly read by the computer. These long set of codes are written by many programmers in many computer programming languages A programmer has to use these programming languages depending on the purpose of the program he /she wants to make

For Example, Cobol Programming language is generally used for business applications, on the other hand, Programming languages like Fortran,, C++ and Perl etc are used for science and Engineering.


Main Jobs of a Computer Programmer

• Testing
• Debugging
• Software Optimization and maintenance
• Research and Development in Computer Science
• Updating, modifying repairing, and expanding existing programs
• Consultancy
• Writing guides on technical issues and there guides and fixes.

So, without further delay, here I present you the 12 greatest Computer programmers of all time.

(12) Ada Lovelace

                                                                                      

The Ada Lovelace is said to be the first computer programmer in the entire world.  Ada Lovelace became the first lady to publish an algorithm intended for implementation on Charles Babbage's analytical engine. She was the first to recognize the full potential of a "computing Machine". Ada Lovelace was quite interested in mathematics to form his childhood. The mathematical talent was only the thing helped Ada Lovelace to work with the fellow, British mathematician, Charles Babbage, also known as "the father of computers".

Ada Lovelace got inspired by her father. Around the age of  17,  Ada Lovelace meets the Charles Babbage and the pair becomes the friend.  Ada Lovelace got a chance to work on the machine before it was actually finished and was captivated by it. Babbage also created plans for another device known as the analytical engine, designed to handle the more complex mathematical calculations then before.

(11) Niklaus Emil Wirth

                                                                                                                
Niklaus Emil Wirth is a swiss Computer Programmer.He is best known for making and designing various computer programming languages which include, pascal  Euler, W, Modula, Modula-2, Algol, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07.He also is said a pioneer in the field of computer science.In 1984, Niklaus Emil Wirth won the Turing Award for his extraordinary work in the field of computer science and a sequence of innovative computer languages.

He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the Lilith and Oberon operating systems, and for the Lola digital hardware design and simulation system.


(10) Bill Gates 

                                                                                                          
Bill Gates has to be on the list of world best Programmer.Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation.Bill gates  He is the co-founder, ex-executive officer and current chairman of Microsoft, which holds a title of the worlds largest pc software company. Bill gates pursed a large number of philanthropic endeavours.  Bill Gates donates a large amount of money to the charitable organizations and scientific research programs.

Bill Gates gained popularity when he stepped into the market with his own product which is Windows.And successfully build many versions of it which rocked the world and set a record of the most used operating system of all the time.


(9) James Gosling

                                                                                 

James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist who is best known as the founder of Java(Computer Programming language). James Gosling has built many extraordinary computer technologies like a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system, l compilers, Gosling Emacs and mail systems. Gosling Emacs holds Ph Degree from the Carnegie Mellon University.

Gosling Emacs worked with sun micro-systems between 1984 and 2010. Gosling Emacs is also known as the father of the Java Programming language and also created a Java VM(Virtual Machine) from a PERQ by translating Perq Q-Code to VAX assembler and emulating the hardware. Due to extraordinary achievements James Gosling he was elected to the Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

(8) Guido van Rossum

                                                                                     

Guido van Rossum is a dutch Computer Programmer who is best known as the inventor of the Python programming language .he is also known as "Benevolent Dictator For Life". Guido van Rossum continues to oversee the Python development process. he also worked with search giant Google and where he also created Mondrian (a code review system internally used by the Google) and Rietveld. After working for Google for 7 years, he migrated to Dropbox. In 1999, van Rossum submitted a funding proposal to DARPA called Computer Programming for Everybody, in which he further defined his goals for Python:


Guido van Rossum has also worked for the development of the ABC programming languages. Guido van Rossum has been awarded the NLUUG Award in May 2003.

(7) Kenneth Lane Thompson

                                                                   
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson was born on February 4, 1943, he can also be recognized as Ken in Hacker Circle.Kenneth Lane Ken Thompson is said to be the computer science pioneer. Kenneth Lane Ken Thompson has closely worked with Dennis Ritchie. at bell labs. Ken Thompson worked on implementing and designing the original Unix operating system.. Ken Thompson is also known as the inventor of the B Programming Language. Despite this Ken Thompson was also one of the creators and early developer of the plan9 operating systems. "Ken" Thompson closely worked with Google for many and invited a few programming language known as GO.

Ken Thompson received a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and a Master's degree in 1966, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the University of California, Berkeley, Ken Thompson won many Awards in the field of computer science like-National Academy of Engineering, Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, Tsutomu Kanai Award, Japan Prize and National Medal of Technology.


(6) Donald Knuth

                                                             
Donald Ervin Knuth was born on January 10, 1938.Donald Knuth is American Computer Programmer, Scientist, and mathematician. Donald Knuth currently is a professor at the Stanford University. Donald Knuth wrote many extraordinary and valuable books like The Art of Computer Programming. Donald Knuth contributed to the development analysis of the computational complexity of many computer algorithms. Donald Knuth loves to write books on computer science.As a writer and Shclor, Donald Knuth created some unique computer programming systems encourage computer programming.

Donald Knuth earned many awards and honours in the field of Computer science such a shopper Award.Turing Award, Lester R. Ford Award, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer and National Medal of Science etc.

(5) Brian Kernighan

                                                                                        
Brian Wilson Kernighan was born on January 1, 1942. Brian Kernighan is a Candian Computer Programmer And Scientist. Brian Kernighan used to work in bell labs closely with Dennis Ritchie thus contributed to the development of Unix Operating System. Brian Kernighan is said to be the coauthor of AWK and AMPL Programming Languages Brian Kernighan is now a professor at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University. Brian Kernighan earned his Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from the University of Toronto PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University

(4 )Tim Berners-Lee

                                                                 
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. Tim Berners-Lee is also known as TimBL, is Computer Programmer And Scientist. He is quite famous across the globe as he is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web(www). TimBL was the first to lay the upper and unique ideal for an information management system in March 1989. TimBL implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee is currently the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.

(3) Bjarne Stroustrup

                                                                 
Bjarne Stroustrup was born on 30 December 1950. He is a brilliant Danish computer programmer And scientist. Bjarne Stroustrup is a popular, well- known and most remarkable person in the field of computer science as he is the inventor of a widely used C++ programming language. Currently, Bjarne Stroustrup is a visiting professor at Columbia University and works at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in New York. Stroustrup began to create C++ Programming Language in 1979. Stroustrup was made the head of the AT and T Bell Lab's which are Large-scale Programming Research department, from its creation until late 2002.

(2) Linus Torvalds

                                                                                      

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American computer scientist and computer programmer. He was born on December 28, 1969). He is the best known for creating Linux Operating system. He also builds a Linux kernel for Android and Chrome OS. He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.

He was honoured, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "due to his creation of a new open-source operating system for computers which is widely used in various Linux kernel

(1) Dennis Ritchie

                                                                                    

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941, He was an American Computer programmer and computer scientist.He wisely and best known for his excellent working in information technology field. Dennis Ritchie is an inventor of world most used programming language known as "C" Programming language. he worked closely with Ken Thompson at bell labs. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990.


Dennis Ritchie was the co-creator of the powerful and widely used UNIX operating system.. He was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He passed away on October 12, 2011, causing the Fedora 16 Linux distribution to be released in his memory.