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But cell phones, tablets, and other devices
are computers too. Even modern alarm
clocks, refrigerators, and TVs follow coded
instructions.
Think like Ada Lovelace
One hundred years before computers existed,
Ada Lovelace dreamed about machines that
could solve problems or make music. In 1834 she
worked with Charles Babbage on a design for
the first programmable mechanical calculator.
Lovelace knew that she needed to represent her
thoughts in ways the machine could understand.
Even though the machine was never built,
Lovelace imagined how it would have worked.
That’s how she became the world’s first coder!
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