Ada Lovelace Creates an Algorithm

by Rachel Werner

Overview

How does a search engine find just the right information? It uses a set of instructions you never see. And that wouldn’t be possible without the ideas of Ada Lovelace—the first person to describe an algorithm. With historical images and key events before and after Lovelace’s innovation, this book will help kids understand Lovelace’s groundbreaking impact on the history of computers. Uncover the details of events that changed your world in this Pebble Explore series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780756581183
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2024
Series:	Events That Changed Your World
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Lexile:	840L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rachel Werner is the founder of The Little Book Project WI, a bi-annual community arts and nonprofit printmaking collaboration. Her literary writing and craft essays have been published by Off Menu Press, Digging Through The Fat and Voyage YA Literary Journal. A selection of Rachel's recipes are also included in Wisconsin Cocktails (UW-Press, 2020)—and her poetry in the anthology “Hope Is The Thing: Wisconsinites On Hope and Resilience in the Time of Covid-19” (The Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021).

Interviews

Age-appropriate look at key moments in history;