Full name: Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer

Author: Fiona Robinson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781419718724 141971872X

Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s “mad” love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics “poetical science.” Via her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage, she became involved in “programming” his Analytical Engine, a precursor to the computer, thus becoming the world’s first computer programmer. This picture book biography of Ada Lovelace is a portrait of a woman who saw the potential for numbers to make art. Similar books: Ada Lovelace by Diane Stanley Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt On a Beam of Light by Jennifer Berne Ada's Algorithm by James Essinger