When Ada asked Charles Babbage for the name of a math tutor with whom she could continue to study he put her in touch with Mary Fairfax Somerville. Is imaginative thinking important to you? Why? How does Ada’s quote at the end of the Introduction to this book suggest how important imaginative thinking was to her? Trace her leaps of thinking especially in her famous notes as summarized in Appendix A, Note G. Questions for Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer. It is designed for students 12-14 years of age (Candlewick Press, 2019). Menabrea, Source Notes pertaining to the 17 Chapters, an extensive Glossary, a Bibliography and Image Credits.ĭreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer written by Emily Arnold McCully traces Ada’s contributions and her astonishing capacity for ideas as well as her both happy and sad life experiences. where there is a summary of Ada’s famous notes found in her translation of “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage” written by L.F. The back materials contain an Appendix A. The author must be applauded for her clear and engaging telling of Ada’s story as well as her superb research. She went on to predict modern day computing operations such as looping and selection. Their intellectual relationship grew and eventually led her to make a leap in thought and declare numbers were more than numbers-they were symbols.
Although Ada suffered migraines and stomach problems throughout girlhood, she got through it with her own imagination intact.Īfter Ada was presented to London society she had an opportunity to meet the Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, Charles Babbage.
“The Furies” as Ada called them were rigid, controlling and strict. She moved back to London and engaged a team of tutors to educate Ada. Lady Byron was a demanding mother and determined to stamp out any behavior Ada may have inherited from her father.
Her mother left him when she was but one month old. DREAMING in CODE: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer written by Emily Arnold McCully is a well-researched biography for serious middle grade readers interested in the life of a girl who showed superior talent in the area of mathematics.īorn in 1815 Ada never knew her father, Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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