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"he problem is with the pipeline. There are fewer girls than guys who explore computing when they're 12." Is that really the pipeline? If you go in to a 1st ye
by netsp 17y ago
"he problem is with the pipeline. There are fewer girls than guys who explore computing when they're 12."
Is that really the pipeline? If you go in to a 1st year CS/IT class, how many have been tinkering with programming for years? That's a genuine question. I don't know. I just suspect that it's a minority. Possibly as big a minority as business students who have tinkered in business or biology students that have tinkered in biology.
- erlanger 17y agoI think you're mistaken in expecting similar ratios. Everybody has a computer, but not a set of Erlenmeyer flasks.
- netsp 17y agoYour right. I was just trying to illustrate a point. The story of the 12 year old pulling apart a junked Pong console, may be slightly over told.
- Vitaly 17y agoat the age 12 there are very few girls tinkering with computers. Later in life this translates to much less girls going to CS. not everyone doing CS started at 12, but if you start with more, you end up with more...