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I really value initiatives that teach people to code, and I've taught at a few myself. But I wonder at the value of this increasing focus on certain minorities.
by tomblomfield 13y ago
I really value initiatives that teach people to code, and I've taught at a few myself. But I wonder at the value of this increasing focus on certain minorities. Should we have classes focussed on teaching gay people to code?
- nostromo 13y agoI take your point, but in my experience gay men are over-represented in tech, not under-represented.
- coralreef 13y agoBeing gay may make you a minority, but not an obviously visible minority that people could instantly discriminate against. The reason any of these kinds of initiatives exist is because the end results are skewed. That is, some population is statistically under-represented relative to major population. In this case, you might look at the number of black women in tech and wonder why its so low. The creators of this initiative must therefore think that the resources of inspiration/training/education or whatever may not be making it to enough young black girls to persuade them into technology. Hence the desire to "correct" it.
- Bsharp 13y agoI think they are simply trying to get an under-represented group interested in coding, with people they will likely be more comfortable around. This isn't an elite group of hackers excluding other sexes and races, it's meant to be a springboard into coding for a demographic which generally doesn't.
- gtremper 13y agohttp://www.ostem.org/ http://www.ostem.org/