From nonfiction stars Diane Stanley & Jessie Hartland comes a beautifully illustrated biography of Ada Lovelace who is known as the first computer programmer Two hundred years ago a daughter was born to the famous poet Lord Byron & his mathematical wife Annabella Like her father Ada had a vivid imagination & a creative gift for connecting ideas in original ways Like her mother she had a passion for science math & machines It was a very good combination Ada hoped that one day she could do something important with her creative & nimble mind A hundred years before the dawn of the digital age Ada Lovelace envisioned the computer-driven world we know today & in demonstrating how the machine would be coded she wrote the first computer program She would go down in history as Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer Diane Stanley&s lyrical writing & Jessie Hartland&s vibrant illustrations capture the spirit of Ada Lovelace & bring her fascinating story vividly to life