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I don't think that's quite true, I think this is more of a nurture vs nature thing. My father got me into programming, and my colleagues who are women also hav

• cowpewter 8y ago
  For me it was my grandfather, but yes, I also got into programming at least partially due to nurture, not nature. Just teach kids to code, boy or girl. Not all of them will like it, not all of them will be good at it. But I think a lot more girls would be into it and good at it if they were introduced to it before college. Tailor it to the kid's interests. My first programs were more socially oriented. When I was 5-6 years old, all my programs were made-up conversations with the computer, where your answers were stored and parroted back by the computer to show that it was "listening". Maybe a boy would have been less into that and more into something mathier, like LOGO instead of BASIC, but it was what was interesting to me at that age. The computer was a form of imaginary friend for an introverted kid like me.
• cimmanom 8y ago
  Yup. Someone telling us that programming was something for us - not just being exposed to media and advertising and social pressures that continually suggest (and did even more so in the 80's and 90's) that computing was for socially inept males.