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