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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know it's a matter of men and women being "wired differently" or not, what I'm implying is that seriously, this site, while tasteless and of questionable educational quality, is really no more sexist than your average TV commercial, shopping mall or bar. Not everything with boobs is sexist, ffs.

It's not, but should we also not protest those as well? Do we not teach children wrong by showing we are displeased? That silence means their actions are acceptable. Perhaps not reward-worthy, but acceptable. Thus are you saying that the behaviors shown on TV, shopping malls, bars, that is how you want you, your friends, your children to be treated?

It's how my children are going to be treated this way by anyone who thinks that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. I'd much rather have my children think for themselves and know how to deal with people who behave in a way they think is unacceptable to them, than futilely protest against something that many people find absolutely fine.

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Please note, I am posting this with despair - it's little surprise that women are under-represented in our industry if this kind of thing can stand.

100% agree. This is offensive and sexist. I'm a man and I'm offended, and can only imagine how women must find it.

I find it offensive as well. But people are entitled to their free speech, so jabbering on about it is pretty much pointless. But if you like decency enforced by fiat, you could always move to Russia or NK...

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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The PHP Virgin QUIZ is full of wrong answers! 1. To run PHP code it needs to be processed by a web server. They say TRUE. The answer is FALSE. - php-cli is used a lot (composer/phpunit/etc...) 2. If you inspect the source of a web page, will you ever see the PHP code? They Say YES. The Answer is FALSE - I mean maybe if you enable phps (php source) in your web server, but in most usage never. 4.In the following code s…

The CSS Virgin Quiz includes a question about Justin Timberlake and this True/False assertion: "The Big Lebowski is the perfect movie."

I suspect all the quizzes are jokes or proof-of-concept placeholders.

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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The first CSS video says "the property and value are separated by a colon (which she pronounces "colin") as the head of some guy shows up in that position, then the narrator says "no, not that Colin". I don't recognize the guy, but I'm really bad at recognizing celebrities. Who is that face, and is he somebody who would be well-recognized in the UK?

Direct link to the relevant video snippet: http://youtu.be/HFmaW5WYxe0?t=1m1s

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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The first CSS video says "the property and value are separated by a colon (which she pronounces "colin") as the head of some guy shows up in that position, then the narrator says "no, not that Colin". I don't recognize the guy, but I'm really bad at recognizing celebrities. Who is that face, and is he somebody who would be well-recognized in the UK? Direct link to the relevant video snippet: http://youtu.be/HFmaW5WYx…

That's Colin Powell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell).

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem for me is that my wife is constantly trying to get into programming. The industry is already gender-biased enough. If she thinks that this is the kind of thing that programmers want - she's going to be turned off from continuing down that path.

Mine complained they don't have a version with male hotties, too. FML.

http://codedicks.com/

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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post #48
post #34

The PHP Virgin QUIZ is full of wrong answers! 1. To run PHP code it needs to be processed by a web server. They say TRUE. The answer is FALSE. - php-cli is used a lot (composer/phpunit/etc...) 2. If you inspect the source of a web page, will you ever see the PHP code? They Say YES. The Answer is FALSE - I mean maybe if you enable phps (php source) in your web server, but in most usage never. 4.In the following code s…

False. print is a language construct http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php

+1 - oddly enough, my first thought in reading someone's report on the 'incorrectness' of their answers, and yet, adding to the misinformation.

Hint: any php 'function' that can be called without parens, is a language construct. Some of our favorite impostor 'functions' in php: echo, unset, isset, die, include, require

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