Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:49:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
Subject: Augusta Ada Lovelace website
A good jumping off point for MS and HS teachers to show their students one
of the pioneers in programming.
Deb
Lovelace, Ada Byron - 1815-1852 -
http://www.awc-hq.org/lovelace/whowas.htm
This page provides an annotated list of links to all the
Web resources on the first computer programmer. Raised
to be a mathematician and scientist by her mother, who
feared the girl might otherwise take after her poet father,
Lord Byron, Ada wrote code for the analytical engines of
Charles Babbage. From the Association for Women in
Computing, who present an award in her name for
outstanding work in computing. -
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