Dreaming in Code by Emily Arnold McCully

Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped and hampered by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age.

At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britains most infamous Romantic poet, became the worlds first computer programmer.Įven by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Sure to inspire a new generation of pioneers.' Shelf Awareness (starred review)

The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphant.'Written with grace and intelligence, researched with care. Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped - and hampered - by history, social norms, and family dysfunction.

This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer.Įven by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing.

Dreaming in Code by Emily Arnold McCully