Women Who Launched the Computer Age: Ready-To-Read Level 3 [Paperback] Reviews

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This book was chosen by the Children's Book Council as a best STEM book of 2017!
Meet the women who programmed the first all-electronic computer and built the technological language kids today can't live without in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series of biographies about people "you should meet!"
In 1946, six brilliant young women programmed the first all-electronic, programmable computer, the ENIAC, part of a secret World War II project. They learned to program without any programming languages or tools, and by the time they were finished, the ENIAC could run a complicated calculus equation in seconds. But when the ENIAC was presented to the press and public, the women were never introduced or given credit for their work. Learn all about what they did and how their invention still matters today in this story of six amazing young women everyone should meet!
A special section at the back of the book includes extras on subjects like history and math, plus interesting trivia facts about how computers have changed over time. With the You Should Meet series, learning about historical figures has never been so much fun!

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“This is a great book for children to learn about the first computer programmers, who were a team of six women in the mid 1940s. It was because of WWII, that hundreds of women, got jobs as "computers", which were actual people who did complex mathematical computations for ballistics by hand. Then six of these women were selected to work on the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, ENIAC. They were the first computer programmers. Their story had been mostly unknown until 1985 when Harvard undergraduate, Kathy Kleiman, found these women and started helping them get recognition. I think this is the best childrens' book about these women. It is very clear and easy to understand. I gave a copy to all of the elementary schools in my county. March is women's history month, what a great way to celebrate both women's history and women in science.”

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