Who says women can't be computer programmers? : the story of Ada Lovelace

In the early nineteenth century lived Ada Byron: a young girl with a wild and wonderful imagination.

The daughter of internationally acclaimed poet Lord Byron, Ada was tutored in science and mathematics from a very early age.

But Ada's imagination was never meant to be tamed and, armed with the fundamentals of math and engineering, she came into her own as a woman of ideas - equal parts mathematician and philosopher.

From her whimsical beginnings as a gifted child to her most sophisticated notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, this book celebrates the woman recognised today as the first computer programmer.