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ADA Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark

4.0

I've read a number of different works of various sorts on Ada, Countess of Lovelace. This one is a pretty good children's picture book biography. But also seems to be a pretty good book on the subject. As always, it's a choice what the author chooses to focus on. This works focuses more on her childhood then others I remember. Other works indicate that she might not actually have even written the first program for Babbage's machine. But still she is part of the mythos around the origin of programming and certainly did write one of the earliest programs. But also she was on record for predicting what programming was for. All in all a well done book. And the art is pretty good too, though mostly just non distracting.