In my uninformed opinion, I don't think we do a very good job marketing what our field is about. If the uninitiated understood the creativity and artisanship in

In my uninformed opinion, I don't think we do a very good job marketing what our field is about. If the uninitiated understood the creativity and artisanship involved in software, I think there would be more women programmers. Instead, they get a feeling that programming is something vaguely geeky and uncool, and the intro Java class doesn't do a whole lot to dispel the feeling.