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Ben Jeapes, Nick Ward: Ada Lovelace (Hardcover, 2020, Harry N. Abrams, Abrams Books for Young Readers) 4 stars

Meet the woman who made coding cool—and possible!

Before she was a famous mathematician and …

A quick and friendly overview

4 stars

I listened to this within a day and a half as an audio book. Without much background on Ada Lovelace, while I can't fact check the content from prior knowledge, I felt like this was a solid overview of Ada Lovelace's life as an introduction. The fact it's targeted for kids adds more joyful antics to the biography's narrative. It also doesn't gloss over Lovelace's difficulties with her health and family members to make her more palatable as I might have feared. Hearing about other aspects of her life humanizes her beyond her achievements. However, it also makes me wonder what traditional non-European cultures are not acknowledged in the computer science community as precursor's to Lovelace's idea of computer programming, such as through textile forms.