In Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code, Ada uses her incredible
imagination to dream up technology that could have jump-started the
digital age nearly two hundred years ago. In fact, she writes what
will become the world's first programming language. As a child, Ada
is curious about everything. She is obsessed with machines and
creatures that fly, even going so far as to write her own book
about them called "Flyology." Along with her cat, Mistress Puff,
Ada gets into all sorts of trouble. According to her mother, Ada is
a bit too wild and her imagination could benefit from some
discipline, so she puts Ada into a rigorous syllabus of
mathematics, languages, and geography. When Ada comes out in
London's high society, she is invited to the most popular soiree in
town, hosted by the renowned inventor Charles Babbage. It is there
that she encounters a mysterious machine which unlocks a future
full of possibilities. But she can't escape marriage forever, and
soon finds herself a wife with three children. She aches to study
math again, to stand on the same ground as the eccentric inventor
she met so many years ago. She hires tutors to teach her absolutely
everything about math and numbers, before joining Babbage in his
mechanical world. This is the story of a pioneer in the computer
sciences, which is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but it's
also proof that women have the intellectual capacity to make
invaluable contributions to the Science Technology Engineering
& Math world. Also included is further information on Ada's
legacy today and activities based on simple coding and mathematical
concepts.
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