# The First Computer Program

**Authors:** Raúl Rojas  
**arXiv:** [2303.13740](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13740)  
**Date:** 2023-03-24  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/2303.13740v1/

## Abstract

In 1837, the first computer program in history was sketched by the renowned mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. It was a program for the Analytical Engine. The program consists of a sequence of arithmetical operations and the necessary variable addresses (memory locations) of the arguments and the result, displayed in tabular fashion, like a program trace. The program computes the solutions for a system of two linear equations in two unknowns.