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I think the author may really be onto something here. I have teenage and twenty-something daughters. My youngest is very excited about her stats minor but when
by heyyyouu 8y ago
I think the author may really be onto something here. I have teenage and twenty-something daughters. My youngest is very excited about her stats minor but when I suggested computer science to her the horror that crossed her face...like it was a personal insult. Another one is into math and science and also wouldn't consider CS if her life depended on it -- physics or chemical engineering, sure, but never CS. Both do have very active social lives -- maybe that's it, or maybe it's because their parent wants them to do it -- kids never want to do what their parent suggests. Whatever it is, as a mom who fell into tech who would love her daughters to get a CS degree, I have yet to find way to make the degree appealing to them, even though they like what I do and actually find the act of coding enjoyable.
- Gibbon1 8y ago> physics or chemical engineering, sure, but never CS. I think ultimately a career in real engineering field would be easier and more satisfying to your daughters than CS. Because CS is thick with toxic lord of the flies man child's at this point.
- heyyyouu 8y agoSee, that's the thing: I haven't experienced that myself but I may just be lucky -- I don't know.