Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper- "Amazing Grace"

"The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, "Do you think we can do this?" I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances." - "Amazing Grace"

  

It gives you really good feeling or even an excited feeling when you see some similarities of yours to famous people like scientists, artists or whom that you really interested to. In these series of my blogs I am trying to introduce female computing scientists in a way that whoever read them especially women in computing field, find themselves in these scientist and somehow to be encouraged to follow their field and invite other women to this field in more efficient way and love what they learn and what they do and even to be like one of this scientists and sure you can be if you aim, there is saying:

“If you want something from your deepest heart so you can achieve it … no matter that no one know about your desire but whole world can feel it and will help you ;) ”

I was saying about similarities, well I have similarity to one of women scientist in computing that I really love her and proud of her in computing field as Woman, Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper.

I was born on 9-th December but 1990 and I am typically a lazy girl known between my classmates and teachers but in doing some long works not in study or work projects. I am always used to do my works by finding some shortcuts or avoiding some unnecessary task while I was exciting in doing some projects that I loved to do.

Grace Hopper for me know as a scientist who invented compiler so instead of writing codes in zero one or machine language , programmers can write their code in their own language and give to compiler to compile or translate it to machine language. Well that is a BIG invention!!! We as software engineers who tackle in writing many programs via coding we can understand that how she made our task so easy that now we do not have fear of thinking a lot about structuring the algorithm of the program so to get the desired result plus fear of translating whole our program instruction to a world of zero one codes so we could get even a printed line of “Hello World ” job. She did this, she said, because she was lazy and hoped that "the programmer may return to being a mathematician."

Lets go through Grace Hopper life story till her great inventions and becoming “Rear Admiral” and many mine and her similarities but in this part let start by watching her video first then going through some information that it would be good to know about:

"In a fast-moving tech world, it's worth taking time to remember Grace Hopper. A navy admiral and math whiz, she taught computers to talk"

Grace Hopper born on 9^th December 1906 and just like me in her childhood she had interest in knowing that what is inside radio that make sounds of human “live” just like when I was a child I always wondered that how people fit inside the TV or do there exist small people in the world !!?? She opened many radios but she could not reassemble them back and like me she supported by her family to follow her study and especially great support from her mother.

Grace Hopper also introduced “bug” expression. Bug is a mistake in computer programs or systems that causes unexpected result or behave in programs. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program's source code or its design, or in frameworks and operating systems used by such programs, and a few are caused by compilers producing incorrect code. The terms "bug" and "debugging" are both popularly attributed to Grace Hopper in the 1940s while she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University.

Throughout her life, it was her service to her country of which she was most proud. Appropriately, Admiral Hopper was buried with full Naval honors at Arlington National Cemetery on January 7, 1992. Because of that like world call her “Amazing Grace” for me she is amazing , she loved her country and always paid great attention to youth in computing field and understanding it. I love my country and I will put all my strives in developing it not only as my duty but as my great pleasure to my loveliest country #Afghanistan.