Grace Hopper and the Computer (Incredible Inventors)

Proudfit, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 1538276593 ISBN 13: 9781538276594

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub, 2022

Synopsis

Grace Hopper was a big part of teams that worked on the earliest computers, including the landmark MARK I and UNIVAC I and II. She developed the compiler and was instrumental in the creation of programming languages that used English words instead of symbols. This innovation made computers and technology much more accessible to everyday people and led to programs, like COBOL, still used today! Readers will be inspired by Hopper's story, told in age-appropriate detail and with accompanying historical and full-color images.

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Gr 1-3-A brief overview of these famous innovators are provided in these short biographies. While their defining achievements are featured, other facets of their lives are also related. Alexander Graham Bell was a founder of Science magazine, Benjamin Franklin also invented bifocals, and George Washington Carver was the first Black American to attend Iowa State University. Readers learn that Grace Hopper had a doctorate in mathematics, Edison had 1093 patents, and the Wright Brothers owned a bicycle shop. Information is related in a simple, straightforward manner and pictures, usually photographs, oppose the pages of the text. Overall, these titles offer standard biographical fare on the subjects of numerous other biographies. VERDICT These are suitable enough biographies for the intended demographic but, as libraries probably have these people covered in other titles, purchase is recommended only for refreshing a collection where necessary.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538276593
• ISBN 13: 9781538276594
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24