Dreaming In Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
Author: Emily Arnold McCully
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: 9781536228236
: Candlewick Press,U.S.
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: 01 March 2023
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Description
Today, Ada Lovelace is recognized and celebrated as a pioneer and a prophet of the information age, presaging computer programming by a century. In the 1800s, she was having an unusual upbringing-even by the standards of the time. Tutored by some of the brightest minds, Ada, the daughter of bad-boy poet Lord Byron, developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. Hers was a peculiar and singular intellect, both shaped and hampered by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. Book jacket.