Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future

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Instructions Not Included reveals the hidden history of three brilliant women who programmed the world first electronic general purpose computer. During World War II, Betty Snyder, Jean Jennings, and Kay McNulty were tasked with operating the ENIAC, a massive machine filling an entire room. Without manuals or existing code to guide them, these pioneers used logic and mathematics to invent the fou…

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