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Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper e-bog
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Have you ever taken something apart to see how it works? As a child, Grace Hopper took apart five alarm clocks in a row, trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. As an adult, she joined the Naval Reserve during World War II and worked on the world's first large-scale computer.After the war, Hopper served on a committee organized by the Department of Defense to create a standard com...
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42,15 DKK
Forlag
Lerner Publications â„¢
Udgivet
1 august 2016
Genrer
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781512425048
Have you ever taken something apart to see how it works? As a child, Grace Hopper took apart five alarm clocks in a row, trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. As an adult, she joined the Naval Reserve during World War II and worked on the world's first large-scale computer.After the war, Hopper served on a committee organized by the Department of Defense to create a standard computer language. That language, Common Business-Oriented Language, or COBOL, quickly became popular. How did a curious little girl grow up to become the "e;Grandmother of COBOL"e;? Learn how her outstanding innovations changed the field of computer programming.