Ada Lovelace Day, Hopscotch, Lucius and Serial's Sarah Koenig
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It's Ada Lovelace Day! In celebration of the mother of computer programming, we get to know a great lady nerd of today: Hopscotch app co-founder Jocelyn Leavitt. Then we go behind-the-scenes at Serial, the new podcast from This American Life. Lauren Chooljian talks to singers from indie pop powerhouse Lucius about their nerdy passions. Mr. Superlative stops by. And a Gilmore Girls-related nerd confession.
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| 0:00.0 | Mark my words, Potter. |
| 0:03.9 | One day soon, you are going to meet the same sticky end. |
| 0:10.9 | Don't be scared. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm the super sweet monster with the super sweet new serial Count Chocula. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:20.8 | And from WBeezy in Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:23.8 | Coming up, a conversation with the co-founder of Hopscotch, a tool for teaching kids to code. |
| 0:28.4 | And we go behind the scenes of the new storytelling podcast from this American life that everyone is talking about. |
| 0:34.8 | Serial. |
| 0:35.5 | Plus we hear from the band Lucius. |
| 0:37.5 | All that, plus your nerd confessions. |
| 0:39.5 | Right here on Nerdette. |
| 0:45.3 | We love to talk about Great Lady Nerds of History all the time. |
| 0:48.5 | But this week is special. |
| 0:49.7 | Tuesday is Ada Lovelace Day. |
| 0:51.6 | October 14th is the day we set aside to celebrate Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming. |
| 0:57.1 | She is amazing. And the more I understand about the context that she was living in, the more I realize just how imaginative and how far ahead of her time she was. |
| 1:09.8 | That's Sue Sharman Anderson, who founded Ada Lovelace Day. |
| 1:13.0 | It's an international celebration of women in STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math. |
| 1:18.3 | What Ada saw was that the analytical engine, given the right algorithms, |
| 1:23.4 | could calculate a result that had not been worked out by human head or hands first. |
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