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... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
by iopq 13y ago
... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
- cantbecool 13y agoThere's some truth to this. I took a few intro classes to boost my GPA and the majority of women in my group begged for me to help them just pass the class since it would look good on their resume.
- LordKano 13y agoI hope that you told them 'no' or charged them appropriately for tutoring.
- lmm 13y agoNothing wrong with helping people out, and it can help you master the material yourself.
- budde 13y agoYes, because helping people is just the worst.
- omegaham 13y agoThere's a difference between helping someone with the class and walking them through their assignments, line by line. The former is great; the latter is dishonest. I tutor coworkers in exchange for food and beer. My policy for math and CS is this - if you give me an example, I will walk you through the example with as much detail as you want, but I will not do anything other than proofread your assignments after they've been created. Good: Student has an assignment to do quicksort on an array of integers. He has difficulty with array syntax and asks me to walk him through basic array operations. He then has difficulty grasping what exactly quicksort is doing and asks me to walk him through a quicksort operation by hand. After this, he feels kind of confident and tries making a function. It doesn't work, and he can't find the problem, so he asks me to help debug the program. Bad: "Oh man, I don't get this quicksort stuff at all. Can you, like, help me?" (Cue frustrating half hour where the person shows that he barely grasps the concept of a variable and doesn't give a fuck about the class) "Uh, I gotta turn this in at 11:59 tonight. I need this now." The person who pulled the latter with me was male. I said "no" and watched him fail the class.
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- TallGuyShort 13y agoI thought the comment was more of a reference to anyone's reaction to an introductory CS course, and nothing to do with gender specifically.
- eloff 13y agoIt's not that ridiculous, I think public static void main () scared off about 25% of the students who took introduction to computer programming (java) at UBC. Hopefully the author is not implying that women would be more easily put off by that kind of thing than men (it could well be true or even the other way around, but without hard data to back it up, that's just sexist nonsense.)
- mahyarm 13y agoThis is why I pushed for python in my CS101 class, but the department stuck to java since that was what was demanded by internship employers.
- iopq 13y agoI was just saying that introductory classes have little to do with who actually stays in the program. Give it 6 years and see who actually decides to graduate with the major!
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