You Should Meet: Women Who Launched the Computer Age (Ready to Read: Level Three)

by Laurie Calkhoven (Author) Alyssa Petersen (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: You Should Meet
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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Laurie Calkhoven
Laurie Calkhoven is a children's writer and editor living in New York City. She has written many historical children's books, including George Washington: An American Life and Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. You can visit her at lauriecalkhoven.com.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781481470476
Lexile Measure
880
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Publication date
September 06, 2016
Series
You Should Meet
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF061010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
JNF045000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Readers | Beginner
JNF012040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Computers | Programming
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Computer scientists
Women computer programmers
Computer industry
Computer programmers
Women computer scientists
ENIAC (Computer)

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