Ada Lovelace: Pioneering Computer Programming

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4 1 ADA LOVELACE Ada Lovelace was a scientist in the early 1800s She was one of the first female scientists At that time women were not encouraged to learn science However some women like Ada Lovelace did anyway Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and part of the English upper class She had social and educational opportunities that most girls during her time did not Her mother Annabella Byron was well educated and wanted the same for her daughter Lord Byron was known to have an unstable personality Lady Byron was afraid Ada might have inherited her Understand well as I may my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand Ada Lovelace