Apollo 11 software prevents accidents
Characters:
Theme: Software
Competencies
Mathematical competence in science, technology and engineering
Digital Competence
Personal, social and learning to learn competence
Subjects and year by Educational System
Spain > Technology and digitisation > 1st ESO > Digitisation of the personal learning environment
Spain > Technology and digitisation > 2nd ESO > Digitisation of the personal learning environment
Spain > Technology and digitisation > 3rd ESO > Digitisation of the personal learning environment
Enunciation
Observations and context
Margaret Hamilton can be related to the following contemporary inventors:
- Hedy Lamarr, inventor of the precursor technology of wifi and GPS
- Betty Snyder Holberton, one of the six original ENIAC programmers, the first general purpose digital computer (she is also internationally recognized for her contributions to the COBOL language)
- Jean Jennings Bartik
- Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli
- Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer
- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum
- Frances Bilas Spence, one of the original programmers of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) computer
- Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, British cryptanalyst and numismatic who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II
- Grace Murray Hopper, American computer scientist and military with a degree of counteralmiral
- Jean E. Sammet, American computer scientist, who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962
- Karen Spärck Jones, British scientist specializing in computational linguistics and a pioneer researcher in information retrieval
- Mary Kenneth Keller, who was a Catholic religious, American computer pioneer and the first female PhD in computer science in the United States
- Evelyn Berezin, an American computer engineer who developed the first airline ticket booking system for United Airlines
- Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers
- Radia Joy Perlman is a software creator and network engineer, security expert, best known as the Mother of the Internet.
Description
Exercise of analysis and practical application.
Objectives:
- Example of software application to large projects: Apollo 11
- Practical examples of error code messages and how the software can fix them.