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Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She's been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one...
2) Proving ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand - even though there...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Indiana "Ana" Aaron is a talented coder and IT specialist, but she doesn't always fit in at work. When she speaks up one too many times for her boss's ego, she's transferred to a remote team-and it's clear this is her last chance to blend in. Ana sees working from home as a chance at redemption; she can keep her head down and her camera off. But when her new boss praises her assertiveness and thanks Mr. Aaron, she sees no reason to correct him. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"When these 15 women coders and engineers face impossible problems, they don't quit--they find solutions. They are all doing amazing work in technical fields while overcoming unique challenges not equally faced by male colleagues. Engineering and coding have typically been considered men's fields of study, but these innovative women are showing that problem solving with science and math is everyone's field, and it's time for the world to see powerful...
6) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronc illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book covers the software engineering industry at large, possible career paths, and the preparation tech girls can undertake in middle school, high school, and college to lay the foundations for engineering.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A woman having no luck with online dating creates an anonymous dating review app and is paired at work on a project with a haughty content writer whom she realizes is the most-reviewed walking red flag on her app.
A woman with high standards. A rival coworker. And the promotion that stands between them ... Coder Marina Spicer has no time to waste when it comes to love, hence her long list of dealbreakers. Frustrated by the online dating world, she...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Creating an app that can predict a person's future with 93% accuracy, Ro Deveraux garners the attention of tech investors when it goes viral and is thrust into a fake dating scenario with her ex-best friend, who is her projected soul mate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Learn how her love of math led her to work for the Army and then help develop the ENIAC."--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant coder Asha runs into her high school crush, Cyrus, at a chance meeting. With their friend Jules, they build a social media platform that could bring meaning and connection to millions of lives through personalized rituals. When their app becomes a sensation, Asha is suddenly invisible in the company's boardroom, where decisions are being made without her. Will her own technology mean the end of her relationship? -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Parisa Tabriz turned her toughness and her competitive spirit into a job as Google's top security expert. Learn how Tabriz went from battling her brothers to fighting cybercriminals at one of the world's most important tech companies.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft's computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her...
14) Memory piece
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Known as "The Enchantress of Numbers" by many inventors and mathematicians of the 19th century, Ada Lovelace is recognized today as history's first computer programmer. Her work was an inspiration to such famous minds as Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. This is her story"--
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered who developed computer coding? Discover how Ada Lovelace's interest in mathematics led to her work on an early computer and the first programming algorithm ever used"--
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