Examines the life and contributions of the English mathematician and inventor, whose work with calculating machines caused him to be called the father of the modern computer.
Discusses the history of computers beginning with the early nineteenth-century punch-card machines, the first electronic computers in the early 1900s, and the first home computers in the 1970s.
Robert's parents and brother are always using the computer when he needs it to research school projects, but eventually the family finds a way to solve the problem.