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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua — WisdomDeck honest review

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

by Sydney Padua

A graphic novel in which Lovelace and Babbage build the engine and fight crime, with footnotes that are rigorous history. Funny and scholarly.

Read it if…

you want computing history as comedy with real sources.

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Skip it if…

you dislike comics.

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Three things you will actually use

History can be hilarious.
Footnotes are the point.
Imagine the alternate world.

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Read the first adventure and all the footnotes.

Our verdict

Padua's Lovelace.

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