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Uncommon card · History
Betty Holberton, an Uncommon card
Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
- Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging.
- Holberton was the first person to write a program to write a program ie use a computer to write a program.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Betty Holberton article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Betty Holberton
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Betty Holberton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
