What was the beginning of programming

I think those old mechanical punch cards? Or perhaps even earlier

@kanduvisla hmmm

The first programmer was actually a woman :) Ada Lovelace

Alan Turing writing binary on paper. Real programming ;)

hello world :)

someone connecting real wires. a human control unit !!

Maybe even before electrics. You know, with configuring cogs on complex machines and stuff. Wasn't there some ancient artifact recovered from some ancient Greek ship a couple of years ago? Wasn't that already a form of programming?