Confessions of a Failed Female Coder

Post by zengid » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 3:21 AM UTC

taysic wrote: post #70

zengid wrote: post #60

> "Rather, I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world, the expectation that coursework required coding and debugging for hours after school threatened my ability to excel in other classes or in varsity sports" Just taking this at face value, I think she failed because she was afraid of failing. I've always learned better from having…

Well I'm a woman and I learned coding by myself in exactly the way you describe. I personally don't think it has anything to do with gender. I didn't find many study partners within my major that I could relate to so I just studied by myself. This continued to lay the groundwork for a continuing self-education after college. I don't think this is so weird, but certainly it's nice whenever you have a supportive group…

Post by nerdponx » Sun, Oct 08, 2017, 4:35 PM UTC

anifit01 wrote: post #105

I fail to understand how this is a men VS women issue, as comments here are interpreting this. As evidenced by this part in the article, it is more a this person issue. Or their learning style, as one comment has already pointed out. >It wasn’t my teacher’s fault; she tried hard to engage me and figure out why I wasn’t connecting well with the work. Nor was I facing discrimination or isolation based on my gender — it…

Post by skinnymuch » Mon, Oct 09, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #98

skinnymuch wrote: post #88

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100% agree with your entire comment. People are just different. I recently learned guitar for the first time using one of those Guitar Hero games but you play with a real electric guitar. Two friends commented how if I haven't gotten to learning it after multiple attempts, gamification won't work. But it did. This isn't the first time gamification has worked on me. For whatever reason, gamification [and accountabilit…

I'm of the school of thought that the tech industry should absolutely take affirmative steps to encourage and make it possible for people with a wider set of skills and backgrounds to enter and do well in tech. At the same time we have to accept that people and roles are different. I work with a lot of engineers. I also work with a lot of PR people and, especially at agencies, they conform to at least as much of a de…