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Ada Lovelace, Mathematician and First Computer Programmer

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 Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

 

Ada Lovelace Portrait, 1835

Short Biography of Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace Portrait, 1835

 

  • Daughter of poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke

 

Who Was Ada Lovelace?

 

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science, The First Computer Programmer. Diane Stanley. Illustrated by Jessie Hartland. Simon & Schuster, 2016


Who Was Ada? from Ada Lovelace Day

 

  • Ada Lovelace became well known for her mathematics and coding in a time where women were not taught math

 

    • She did not conform to traditional gender roles and expectations

 

    • See also resources here and here for more biographical information on Ada Lovelace

 

 

Portrait by Alfred Edward Chalon (1838)

 Make a timeline of Ada Lovelace's life with this interactive game

 

 

Link here to see Ada Lovelace's idea come to life! The Babbage Difference Engine Built with LEGO Pieces

 

Charles Babbage's difference engine
Charles Babbage's difference engine


She became a correspondent to mathematician Charles Babbage

 

  • Babbage created the plans for the Difference Machine, the world's first calculator

 

  • Babbage began planning an Analytical Machine
    • She created notes on the machine and its step sequences
    • Her notes became the first computer "code"

 

Article from the New York Times on the Development of an Analytical Engine

  • Focuses on the program she wrote for the Analytical Engine, then goes on to talk about her life, essentially a biography with two pictures of Ada Lovelace

 


 Multimedia Resources

 

Ada Lovelace: Information Pioneer on Vimeo

Ada Lovelace from Science in Seconds on YouTube

 
Ada Lovelace from SciShow Channel on YouTube

  • Audio, video, a good amount of graphics, the presenter's voice isn’t boring and makes jokes with the history he talks about

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Conceiving Ada Movie Trailer a 1997 science fiction film in which Tilda Swinton plays Ada Lovelace

 


Film Review: Calling Byron's Daughter, Inventor of a Computer, The New York Times (February 26, 1999)

 


Not Your Typical Role Model: Ada Lovelace the 19th Century Programmer. Hannah Fry comments about her film, Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing


10 Things You May Not Know about Ada Lovelace

 

 

 

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