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Ada Lovelace‘s zero fear of code
Role models matter, especially for young women who want to be creators, designers, and developers
An homage to the world’s first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron), was born as Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron, December 10, 1815, in Middlesex, now London, England, to Lord and Lady Byron. Ada became famous as an English mathematician, writer, creative thinker, and has been named the world’s first computer programmer.[2] (Wiki link)
We know Lord Byron, her father, for his extensive romantic poetry, much of it written while traveling across Europe during the romantic era of the early 1800’s.
Ada’s parents legally separated when Ada was only two months old. As Ada was growing up, she was tutored privately. Ada’s mother, Lady Byron, supported and helped develop Ada’s early interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father’s perceived insanity. Lord Byron passed away at age of 36, in 1824, when Ada was only 8 years old.
Ada’s creative mind
“If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?” — Ada Lovelace
