Grace Hopper: The First Woman to Program the First Computer
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marx, Christy, PUBLISHER: Rosen Publishing Group, When the first electronic computer was created in , it filled an entire room and took hours to do one simple calculation. It has taken thousands of people many years to develop the handheld, lightning-speed computers that we have today. Back in the s, Grace Hopper was one of the few people who had the foresight to see how important computers could be to us and how advanced they could get.