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Danny Dunn finds himself amid experiments in the basement of his professor‑housekeeper father’s home. When the professor leaves, Danny, along with gloomy Joe and brainy Irene, programs an early electronic computer to do their homework. A suspicious classmate, Eddie, threatens their plan by sabotaging the machine. As errors mount, the trio realizes that the computer can only generate correct assignments if they understand the material, turning the project into an unexpected lesson in learning.
First publish date: 1958
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Jay Williams
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