Ada Lovelace Cracks The Code Av Rebel Girls, Corinne Purtill

<p><strong>From the world of <em>Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls</em> comes a story based on the exciting real-life adventures of Ada Lovelace, one of the world’s first computer programmers.</strong></p> <p>Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory!<br><br> According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: <em>Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures?</em> But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from that moment forward Ada imagines a future full of possibility—one that will eventually inspire the digital age nearly two hundred years later.<br><br><em>Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code</em> is the story of a pioneer in the computer sciences, and a testament to women’s invaluable contributions t