Proving Ground
by Kathy Kleiman · first published 2022
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How six women moved from being computers to being the original programmers of the world’s first powerful electronic brain, the ENIAC.
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer (by Kathy Kleiman) I enjoy reading up on computer history, and this is a pretty good retelling of an important story.…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer [0] by Kathryn Kleiman. It's about the women who programmed the ENIAC computer[1] in the 1940's. [0] https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathy-kleiman/provi...…
on “Book recommendations about the history of programming” ↗This came up yesterday[1] but if you'd like to know more, Kathy Kleiman's "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer" includes the point of view of Jean Bartik along with the other ENIAC programmers. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathy-kleiman/provi...…
on “ENIAC programmer Jean Bartik's Amazon book review” ↗