Emile Baudot

You spent 50 hours coding, keep it up!

Emile Baudot was a French telegraph engineer and inventor. He created the first binary encoding system for communications, and today's modem speed unit baud is named after him.

Greek Art

You spent 10 minutes drawing, keep it up!

Active Community Member

You made a public post in the community forum!

Ada Lovelace

You spent 20 hours coding, seems more than just a hobby!

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer. She anticipated applications beyond pure calculation to Babbage's Analytical Engine, and created the first algorithms for such a machine.

Cave Art

You started drawing!

George Boole

You spent 10 hours coding, isn't that crazy?

George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He formalized Boolean algebra, the basis for digital logic and computer science.

Charles Babbage

You spent 5 hours coding, O.M.G!

Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, engineer and inventor. He originated the concept of a programmable general-purpose computer and designed the Analytical Engine.

Joseph Jacquard

You spent 2 hours coding, starts looking like an addiction!

Joseph Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He built and demonstrated the Jacquard loom, a programmable mechanized loom controlled by a tape constructed from punched cards.

Gottfried Leibniz

You spent 1 hour coding, amazing!

Gottfried Leibniz was a German mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He made advances in symbolic logic and his work was crucial for the theoretical foundations of computer science.

Blaise Pascal

You spent 30 minutes coding, well done!

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher. He invented the mechanical calculator.

Al Jazari

You spent 10 minutes coding, keep it up!

Al Jazari was a Muslim scientist, artist, mathematician living in Mesopotamia. He invented an astronomical clock considered the first programmable analog computer.

Al Khwarizmi

You actually started coding!

Al Khwarizmi was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. His name gave rise to the term 'algorithm'.