-Throughout computing there have been folks who have demonstrated amazing coding abilities. They're in the pantheon of computer programmers: Ada Lovelace, Dennis Ritchie, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, and so on. We also have developers in our own communities that have a certain celebrity status, whether they're the folks who wrote the language we currently use, or the folks who maintain the operating system we use, or someone who rose to prominence in our chosen community. It can feel a little intimidating when we compare ourselves with these folks. After all, whatever we're currently working on might not measure up to whatever they have done. Worse, we may be working on something similar and feel like whatever we're working on will never measure up to those folks. We may even be friends with coders who seem to figure out things much quicker than we can and marvel at how they seem to have this body of knowledge that feels impossible to attain.
+Throughout computing there have been folks who have demonstrated amazing coding abilities. They exist the pantheon of great computer programmers: Ada Lovelace (the first computer programmer), Dennis Ritchie (creator of the C programming language), Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (creator of COBOL and credited with finding the first documented computer "bug"), and so on. We also have developers in our own communities that have a certain celebrity status, whether they're the folks who wrote the language we currently use, the folks who maintain the operating system we use, or someone who rose to prominence in our chosen community. It can be intimidating when we compare ourselves with these luminaries. After all, whatever we're currently working on might not measure up to whatever they have done. Worse, we may be working on something similar and feel like whatever we're working on will never measure up to what these folks have accomplished. We may even be friends with programmers who seem to figure out things much quicker and cleaner than we can and marvel at how they seem to have this body of knowledge at their fingertips that we can't possibly understand.