> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities) (mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources

> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities) (mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources) If a professor believes consciously or subconsciously, by looking at you, that you're less likely to succeed, that's a significant barrier that may well be immediately fatal to your interest in a subject. The frequency with which this kind of thing is said out loud is astonishing. E.g.: https://abc11.com/education/nc-state-professor-suspended-for-calling-women-useless-in-lecture/5585611/ https://abc11.com/education/nc-state-professor-suspended-for... If you've never personally witnessed quiet sexism (against women) and quiet racism (against non-white and in particular black people) in computer science, then I question where you have been.