Book Review: Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

by Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Children’s Fiction , Middle Grade

Pub Date 12 Nov 2019

I am reviewing a copy of Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code by Rebel Girls and Netgalley:

Ada Lovelace was a girl far ahead of her time. She used her incredible imagination to dream up technology that could have jump started the digital age nearly two hundred years ago. In facts she ends up writing what will become the world’s first

programming language.

When she was a child Ada was curious about everything. She becomes obsessed with animals and things that fly. She even writes her own book about them which she calls Flyology. She and her cat, Mistress Puff, geinto all sorts of trouble. According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild and her imagination could benefit from some discipline, so she puts Ada into a rigorous syllabus of mathematics, languages, and geography.

When Ada comes out in London High Society, she gets invited to the most popular Soirée in town, it is hosted by inventor Charles Babbage, it is there that she discovers a mysterious machine which unlocks a future full of possibilities. But she can’t escape marriage forever, and soon finds herself a wife with three children. She aches to study math again, to stand on the same ground as the eccentric inventor she met so many years ago. She hires tutors to teach her absolutely everything about math and numbers, before joining Babbage in his mechanical world.

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code is a story of the pioneer of the computer industry and a girl who was far ahead of her time

I give Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!