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I've been conducting an informal survey amongst coder friends testing the hypothesis: Childhood experience playing with LEGO blocks is a predictor of a p
by ivan_ah 13y ago
I've been conducting an informal survey amongst coder friends testing the hypothesis:
Childhood experience playing with LEGO blocks is a predictor
of a person's affinity towards programming as an adult.
I think "building things with code" is very similar to "building things with LEGOs" so I wonder to what extent other people see programming the same way and whether "LEGO experience" could be a factor in the developer gender gap.
Perhaps some of the female coders on HN could comment. Did you grow up playing LEGO?
- Crake 13y agoI actually hate Lego. The only Lego thing I ever wanted was Mindstorm. I did have a crazy amount of K'nex, though, and built all sorts of race cars, roller coasters, bridges I could put between two chairs and make an adult sit on, etc. I still like K'nex a lot more than Lego--you can do many more things, and with far fewer pieces.