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
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