Much of what she lines out isn't necessarily related to gender. Any kind of creative type will find dry CS classes boring. As someone else points out, the fact

Much of what she lines out isn't necessarily related to gender. Any kind of creative type will find dry CS classes boring. As someone else points out, the fact that the teacher that almost failed her was a male is completely tangential to the story. A better title for this article would be "Why aren't there more people with similar interests and motivations as me in tech?".