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Why there is so few female programmers?

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  • L l a u r e n

    i find that you can train the logical a -> b -> c stuff into your brain by just hard work ... the a -> f -> d -> z comes naturally and makes for good solutions developing can i say this then ... *sniggaz* ... men _tend_ to be better at actually producing the code and stuff but chikkies _tend_ to be better at organizing the whole solution? *borrows asbestos suit* :)

    "... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
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    lauren wrote: can i say this then ... *sniggaz* ... men _tend_ to be better at actually producing the code and stuff but chikkies _tend_ to be better at organizing the whole solution? Honestly Lauren, I worked for a long time in a place where the programmers were roughly mixed and I think as a general statement you are bang on the mark there, to the point where I'd say most women are useless coders and most men are useless organisers. Just my experience but well summarised. Paul

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    • T Tomaz Stih 0

      ...and there should be more! r u crazy? with the market like now? tomaz

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      leppie
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      tstih wrote: ...and there should be more! ...and there should be more girls playing Counter Strike too! :laugh: Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens! As seen on MS File Transfer: Please enter an integer between 1 and 2.

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      • T Tim Smith

        They just don't post on computer geek boards because when they do, they start receiving strange love letters. Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

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        Anna
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        Tim Smith wrote: They just don't post on computer geek boards because when they do, they start receiving strange love letters. You mean like this one I got the other day? hi how r u? i wish u r fine.my name is ahmed aand 21 years old. i am egyptian and study in engineering college. i would like to be friends. i like to have friends in ur age.i think that women in this age become very experince and become also very beatuiful. if u would like to be friends,waiting for ur email soon bye Oh well...at least it wasn't HE who SHALL remain NAMELESS this time. :rolleyes: Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
        - Marcia Graesch

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        • S Sylph

          wait and see.. in a few years... maybe us females will be asking the question.. why are there so few male programmers?... but the answer to that would probably be that we have out smarted the entire male race in EVERY field. ;P and to: "While a programmer needs to very creatively think "across borders" and in , absolute "problem focus" is what gets the job done. And while women tend to be better at the first, men are better on the latter." you obviously don't know many woman...woman are ALWAYS better on the latter :cool: :)

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          Woohoo! Go Girl! Anna :rose: "Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
          - Marcia Graesch

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          • A Alex E

            I’m just wondering, why the majority of programmers are men? Why there is so few female coders?

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            Todd C Wilson
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            Why are the majority of gymnists women? Why so few good men?

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            • R Rohit Sinha

              This proves peterchen's point that you girls can't focus. You need to finish an assignment and here you are, posting on CP. Shhesh. ;P
                Regards,

              Rohit Sinha

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              Sylph
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              Rohit Sinha wrote: This proves peterchen's point that you girls can't focus. You need to finish an assignment and here you are, posting on CP. Shhesh. no it just means we can focus on more than 1 thing! :eek:

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              • P Paul Selormey

                Simple, men are generally lazy, and will prefer just sitting down and looking into a screen (be it PC or whatever). Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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                Brian Delahunty
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                Paul Selormey wrote: Simple, men are generally lazy, and will prefer just sitting down and looking into a screen (be it PC or whatever). :omg: My god... Your right.:cool: Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                • N Nnamdi Onyeyiri

                  my physics teacher calls this 3 dimensional conceptualisation :)

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                  Nnamdi Onyeyiri wrote: 3 dimensional conceptualisation Yep.. That's the more technical term for it. Does he/she go on about it a lot? Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                    Nnamdi Onyeyiri wrote: 3 dimensional conceptualisation Yep.. That's the more technical term for it. Does he/she go on about it a lot? Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                    Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                    an awful lot, he says that 3d... is the key to getting an A in the course, if you can visualise whats happening in your mind, then it puts you well above others.

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                    • A Anders Molin

                      I thought you were the only programmer there, and all the rest was web-developers of some kind... Does this mean you are 72% female? ;P - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                      Brian Delahunty
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                      Anders Molin wrote: Does this mean you are 72% female? LOL... Are your interested ;-) Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                      • N Nish Nishant

                        Heheh. There are 14 programmers here - 10 women and 4 men. Of the women - 8 of them are on Java, HTML and JSP(ughhhhhhhhh) Of the other two, one does PHP, VB and ASP And Smitha (Tweety) does C#, VB, PHP and ASP Of the 4 men, 3 of them do JSP and Java I am the 4th fellow and I do MFC, C++ and recently a little .NET (I was asked to do it using C#, but I chose MC++ ;-) ) Regards, Nish

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                        Nishant S wrote: Tweety Haven't seen Tweety around here in ages. She ok? Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                        • E Ed Gadziemski

                          Who opened the door of the asylum and let you loose again?

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                          Brian Delahunty
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                          Ed Gadziemski wrote: Who opened the door of the asylum and let you loose again? :rolleyes::laugh: Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                          • L l a u r e n

                            *lauren gets her gun out...*

                            "... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
                            biz stuff   about me

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                            Brian Delahunty
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                            lauren wrote: *lauren gets her gun out...* LOL :wtf: Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                            • P Paul Watson

                              Tim Smith wrote: they start receiving strange love letters. Dear Timothy Smith, I am l337 4/\x0r on CP and find myself devilishly attracted to y.... ;P :laugh:

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                              Brian Delahunty
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                              LOL. :laugh: Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                              • S Sylph

                                yeah i know male is a gender.. :-O but that wasn't the point i was tryin to make.. sheesh gimme a break its 1:30am here.. and am tryin to finish a java assignment ;P so my brain is mush.

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                                Brian Delahunty
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                                Sylph wrote: yeah i know male is a gender.. but that wasn't the point i was tryin to make.. sheesh gimme a break its 1:30am here.. I think peterchen is only trying to rise ya. What the java assignment on???? Probably some networking crappy app that they're making ya do? Hate those ones Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                                • J Joe Woodbury

                                  There are several fields where women are unrepresented for no apparent reason; the two that pop into mind are motorcycle and automobile racing. Believe it or not, I think there's a parallel. In motor racing, most drivers were heavily involved as kids--it's more than Dads (and Moms) pushing it, they become car nerds, er, nuts. And then there's the competitive, generally without grudges, angle Likewise, most the programmers I know are techno-geeks, or were for the first ten years in the business. Even when they get burned out, they still pay attention to the dry news report that company x increased processor speed by so much (like the car geeks ears perk up when a company gets 5 more horse power out of an engine.) My point is, that relatively few women are techno-geeks or car nuts for that matter, as teenagers and I think that shapes choices when going into college. (My teenage daughter keeps pictures of high end cars which is considered odd by all her girl friends, but not her guy friends.)

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                                  Brian Delahunty
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                                  There is 1 female formula 1 test driver.. she's Irish too... :-D Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                                  • B Brian Delahunty

                                    There is 1 female formula 1 test driver.. she's Irish too... :-D Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                                    Joe Woodbury
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                                    And Sarah Fisher did a test drive at Indianapolis in a McLaren on Friday. Unfortunately, to date I've not been impressed with her driving in IRL, but that's oval racing, she may be better on real racetracks.:)

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