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A computer called Katherine: how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
By Suzanne Slade, Veronica Miller Jamison. 2019
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Biography, Science and technology, Social issues, Science and medicine biography, General non-fiction, Computers and internet, United States travel and geography, Adventure and exploration, Women biography
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The story of pioneering African American mathematician Katherine Johnson, who performed calculations vital to America's first manned space flight, its…
first manned orbit of Earth, and the first trip to the moon. For grades K-3. 2019Dreaming in code: Ada byron lovelace, computer pioneer
By Emily Arnold McCully. 2019
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Women biography, Computers and internet, Science and medicine biography
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This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer…
programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age. Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped—and hampered—by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphantHow computers work
By Capstone. 2020
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Science and technology, Computers and internet
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Ever wonder what goes on inside your computer? Take a look into how processors, networks, and more are all connected
Steve jobs, steve wozniak, and the personal computer
By Tod G. Smith. 2020
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Tells the story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the personal computer. Written in graphic-novel format