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Your own words using full sentences
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Date | 27.01.2017 | Size | 6.03 Kb. | | #8766 |
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//year 9(ProgrammingHomework)
Read the article about Lady Ada Lovelace on my blog mscollingwood.wordpress.com and then answer the following questions in your own words using full sentences.
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Who is Ada Lovelace?
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What was unusual about Ada in regards to her schooling?
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Who is Charles Babbage? Name three important inventions he created (NOT the Analytical or Difference engines):
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Could Charles Babbage have designed the Analytical or Difference Engine without the help of Ada Lovelace? Why not?
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Ada helped to translate the writings of Louis Meabrea, an Italian mathematician. What was unusual about her translations?
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Name three things that Ada predicted that a computer might be able to do in the future:
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How correct was Ada in her predictions?
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Why are these predictions so exceptional - think about the era she lived in which had no phones, internet or iPads?
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What part of her writings are regarded as the first ‘computer program’?
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Who named a programming language after Ada? Why did they do this?
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What aspect of computing do you think Ada would be involved in if she had been born today? What kind of person might she be?
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