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Author:

Brown, Tami Lewis, author.

Title:

Instructions not included : how a team of women coded the future / by Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn ; illustrated by Chelsea Beck.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Disney/Hyperion,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Bartik, Jean--Juvenile literature.
Mauchly-Antonelli, Kay--Juvenile literature.
Holberton, Frances E.--Juvenile literature.
Women computer scientists--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Computer scientists--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
ENIAC (Computer)--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Dunn, Debbie Loren, author.
Beck, Chelsea, 1994- illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"Click. Whir. Buzz. Not so long ago, math problems had to be solved with pencil and paper, mail delivered by postman, and files were stored in paper folders and metal cabinets. But three women, Betty Snyder, Jean Jennings, and Kay McNulty knew there could be a better way. During World War II, people hoped ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), one of the earliest computers, could help with the war effort. With little guidance, no instructions, and barely any access to the machine itself, Betty, Jean, and Kay used mathematics, electrical engineering, logic, and common sense to command a computer as large as a room and create the modern world. The machine was like Betty, requiring outside-the-box thinking, like Jean, persistent and consistent, and like Kay, no mistakes, every answer perfect. Today computers are all around us, performing every conceivable task, thanks, in large part, to Betty, Jean, and Kay's pioneering work. Instructions Not Included is their story."-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1368011055
9781368011051

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1065802659

LCCN:

2018053225

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