Inspires or forces? I would love it if we had more females in CS, as it would mean that I could find a girlfriend, but after suggesting to many girls at my university that they consider CS and being told that they would never dream of it, I think that they genuinely are uninterested and that these programs constitute an attempt to force it upon them.
I really liked the comment of the woman who compared computer science to magic. That was my reason for wanting to work with computers: they were the closest thing to magic you can find in the real world. I encourage aspiring sorceresses to give the field consideration.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clark
I am a female with a CS degree. I took my first computer class in 1982 in high school when no one knew that it was a "boy" thing. Half the kids in the class were girls. I fell in love with the logical problem solving of CS. I majored in CS in college and, again, half the kids were girls. When I went to work as a software engineer I met guys who were the least sexist of any industry I have ever heard about. They were brilliant from MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Virginia Tech, etc. All they cared about was your brain and your ideas - they didn't care that I was a woman.
I am now a teacher of Computers in middle school. Students are required to take digital arts classes (powerpoint, word processing, web page design with HTML -not programming to me). But they aren't required to take computer science. So girls don't take it. They are afraid of the boys knowing more. However, when I teach 6th graders Scratch, the girls are just as interested as the boys.
Let's make at least one programming class and one hardware class (what is the difference between the CPU and the hard drive) mandatory for all students. Then they can all experience it. I bet more girls would go into the field.
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i'd fallen head over heels in love with CS way before this video came along. :P
Inspires or forces? I would love it if we had more females in CS, as it would mean that I could find a girlfriend, but after suggesting to many girls at my university that they consider CS and being told that they would never dream of it, I think that they genuinely are uninterested and that these programs constitute an attempt to force it upon them.
I really liked the comment of the woman who compared computer science to magic. That was my reason for wanting to work with computers: they were the closest thing to magic you can find in the real world. I encourage aspiring sorceresses to give the field consideration.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clark
I am a female with a CS degree. I took my first computer class in 1982 in high school when no one knew that it was a "boy" thing. Half the kids in the class were girls. I fell in love with the logical problem solving of CS. I majored in CS in college and, again, half the kids were girls. When I went to work as a software engineer I met guys who were the least sexist of any industry I have ever heard about. They were brilliant from MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Virginia Tech, etc. All they cared about was your brain and your ideas - they didn't care that I was a woman.
I am now a teacher of Computers in middle school. Students are required to take digital arts classes (powerpoint, word processing, web page design with HTML -not programming to me). But they aren't required to take computer science. So girls don't take it. They are afraid of the boys knowing more. However, when I teach 6th graders Scratch, the girls are just as interested as the boys.
Let's make at least one programming class and one hardware class (what is the difference between the CPU and the hard drive) mandatory for all students. Then they can all experience it. I bet more girls would go into the field.
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This is interesting and mostly girls compared compared computer science to magic :)
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I completely and absolutely agree that CS is simply the least boring thing I could be doing! Srk9 obviously just does not understand women.
Girls are becoming really fast and going forward. And this is really nice site to see the list of information articles.
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