Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
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Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#2Not 2 years ago, it was at least 90% male.
Although towards the end of the term, it trended towards a balance.
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On review, the article is NOT about what you'd consider CS1
"Introduction to Symbolic Programming was reborn as Beauty and the Joy of Computing."
This is a CS class in the loosest sense of the word.
It fulfills no prerequisites towards a CS degree.
OTOH I could just be cynical, and this class is just what's needed to get more females into the subsequent CS classes.
At least anecdotally, I know a few people who had no real interest in CS start with this class, but then proceed to take proper CS classes they may otherwise have ignored.
Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#3... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#4... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
There'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.
Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#5This is talking about CS10, not CS61a.
CS10 is a class designed mostly for non majors, who are interested in Computer Science; CS61a is the first required class for the major. I know of a bunch of CS guys with their girlfriends in CS10. A lot of people who are already set on taking CS as their major go directly into CS61a, skipping CS10, and this accounts for a lot of the gender ratio difference in CS10. If you look at a class like CS162, you can see the gender ratio of the people who are actually sticking through the major.
This doesn't mean as much as graduation rates, etc.
Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#6... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
There'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.
I hope that you told them 'no' or charged them appropriately for tutoring.
Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#7It sounds like it's one of those "programming for non-programmers" courses and not really the full entry-level course into the CS program, but it's still encouraging that so many young women are interested in dabbling with code.
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#8... and they all promptly changed their majors when they found out forgetting a semi-colon made their programs not compile.
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Re: Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science
#9This is talking about CS10, not CS61a. CS10 is a class designed mostly for non majors, who are interested in Computer Science; CS61a is the first required class for the major. I know of a bunch of CS guys with their girlfriends in CS10. A lot of people who are already set on taking CS as their major go directly into CS61a, skipping CS10, and this accounts for a lot of the gender ratio difference in CS10. If you look…
That's what I was thinking. I remember CS101 at my school had a decent amount of women, but by the time you reached 3rd year they all had disappeared.