Ada Lovelace: Pioneering Computer Programming

Doudna, Kelly

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ABDO Publishing Company

Just the Series: STEM Superstar Women

Series and Publisher: STEM Superstar Women

Annotation: Introduces the life and work of Ada Lovelace, describing her childhood, education, family life, work with the Babbage on the first computing machine, and more.

Genre: [Biographies]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #155286

Format: Library Binding

Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company

Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 12/15/17

Pages: 32 pages

ISBN: 1-532-11283-1

ISBN 13: 978-1-532-11283-6

Dewey: 921

LCCN: 2017944047

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Lovelace, Ada King,. Countess of,. 1815-1852. Juvenile literature.
Lovelace, Ada King,. Countess of,. 1815-1852.
Women mathematicians. Juvenile literature.
Women computer engineers. Great Britain. Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians.
Women computer engineers. Great Britain.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2018)

Each volume provides a succinct overview of a trailblazing woman in STEM. The subjects' childhoods, education, numerous obstacles (many times because of their gender), and achievements are explained in readable prose. Archival photographs, sidebars, and fact boxes help to highlight each woman's importance in her field. Timeline. Glos., ind.

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Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2018)

Word Count: 2,402

Reading Level: 5.2

Interest Level: 3-6

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.2 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 193520 / grade: Middle Grades

Lexile: 810L

Guided Reading Level: R

Women have made some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. In this title, readers learn about mathematician Ada Lovelace from her early work in creating the Bernoulli algorithm to her understanding that numbers could represent data, making her an early computer programmer. A timeline, sidebars, fun facts, glossary, and index supplement the text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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