Other editions of book Ada, The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace was a brilliant writer and mathematician. When Charles Babbage, the Father of Computers, showed her his Analytic Engine, she wrote an algorithm for it, making her the first computer programmer in history. She was a visionary that was the first to see the potential of computers past pure numeric calculation at a time when no one believed this was possible. She called her studies, Poetical Science, and sought to examine the relationship between technology and society. Teach your children about this groundbreaking woman whose poetical science ideas are now more relevant today than ever. Show your daughters an example of visionary woman in STEM whose legacy lives on today.