Review: Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code - Rebel Girls

-






Review: Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code - Rebel Girls - November 2021

One thing I am happy I get to read them now as a reviewer, but I so wish that when I was in my tweens/teens that Rebel Girls had existed as I could have gone down a completely different track with my career as I would have been exposed to more female role models, as it was I had ones like Ann M. Martin, Beverley Cleary, Judy Blume, Louise May Alcott, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jacqueline Wilson, and Francine Pascal and then their book characters like Elizabeth Wakefield, Harriet the Spy and Mary Ann Spiers. This makes sense as to why I went down the track of reading and writing, and even so with this I often wish I had parents at the same time that encouraged me as I would be on a completely different life path than I am now. Who knows where I could be if only we had books like Rebel Girls in the 90s and early to mid-2000s? Working for the House of Science as an EA, I am now exposed to females in the STEM field and one of those talked about and celebrated is Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace grew up in 19th-century London and helped developed computer codes and computer science. She was before her time as it would be about two hundred years later, that Ada's work would be recognized and relooked at with the developments of computers, and in the end, she would be seen as one of the first-ever female coders in history and a pioneer for Computer Science. Rather than written as a purely factual book, Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code is written like a junior chapter book and at the end of the book contains some activities related to Ada Lovelace's work in both computer coding and mathematics. This is the perfect book for any female who loves STEM and computers/coding aged between 7-12 years old.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QpwEtO







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Review: Steel Princess - Rina Kent

-
Image
Review: Steel Princess - Book #2 Royal Elite Series - Rina Kent - December 2019 At the end of Book #1, we were left on a cliffhanger of Elsa being pushed into the pool. At the beginning of book #2, she is saved by a newcomer to the school - Knox.  We can see some friendly flirting but nothing more going on between these two, but it riles up Aiden who still has this mindset of "if I can't have her, no-one can" especially since he is supposed to be engaged to Silver Queens. During Book #2 Elsa starts to recall some more memories and goes to Dr.Khan in hopes that he can open her Pandora's box and can restore her full memories of what happened before she was seven years old. We also catch a glimpse during this book of her past and why Aiden King's father blames her for his mother's death and why Aiden considered Elsa a ghost. I liked this book as it was more intense with Elsa's memories and past returning. In Book #2 it is revealed about he...
Read more

Review: Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas

-
Image
  Review: Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas - October 2016 As soon as I read Bully by Penelope Douglas, I was in love with this author. So when she released a new one who had my favorite theme of penpals and that whole friend to lovers going on, I knew I had to read it. The book started out with a bit of background where we learned about how Misha and Ryen were placed together in a classroom project penpal program. The pair continues to write to each other right through the year, and then they take it to the next level and continue through the rest of their schooling. Fast forward to high school Misha is in a band and Ryen is out with her friends and they complete a scavenger hunt form. Ryen is not what Misha expected especially from her letters. Tragedy occurs, and Misha turns up at Ryen's school under a fake name. This doesn't go over too well as Ryen is nothing like her letters, in fact, she is as fake as can be and Misha aka Masen hates her, in fact, she...
Read more