Why there is so few female programmers?

leppie

Alex E. wrote: I’m just wondering, why the majority of programmers are men? Why there is so few female coders? Now if we could include the following in a language we would have 10 times more women programming:

orswitch(var)
{
case 1|2|3|4|5|6|7:
//do something, but dont break
case 2|4|7|9|3:
//do something else
case 1|5|7|8:
//ditto
exceptioncase:
//something is not like should be
}

Now if we can do that, we will have more women coders :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.

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"
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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

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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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: :)

leppie

lauren wrote: *lauren gets her gun out...* :exceptioncase :laugh: no seriously, I have the greatest respect for female programmers and there should be more! 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.

Renjith Ramachandran

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Simon Walton

Paul Watson wrote: I am l337 4/\x0r on CP and find myself devilishly attracted to y.... On /: perhaps. :D Although you did use some big words there...

Let Q = the set of all quotes, ever
S = {a: a € Q : a is funny, a is nerdy }
a1 a2...an

l a u r e n

rok on sister! :cool:

"... 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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Bruce Duncan

That definitely applies to me :) (or should that be a :(( )

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Nish Nishant

:confused: So? My CP id is nish@inapp.com, and it's been that for a long while too. What's so mysterious about this? It's not the CIA is it ? ;-) Nish p.s. You are from Kollam? I vaguely remember you saying that once!

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leppie

renjith -CP teckforce wrote: BLAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BLAAAAAAA BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NISH IS FROM InApp Technologies,Technopark Trivandrum...?? ehhh.?????????????? blung blung i find ../////// yeahhhhhhhhh..?? Zwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooomzz..!! A Programmer Never Dies..*** ...they just go CRAZY: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.

Bruce Duncan

lauren wrote: chikkies _tend_ to be better at organizing the whole solution Well, I have read that women, tend to be better a 'multitasking' than men.

Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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Ed Gadziemski

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

Amit Dey

Cause somebody has to be responsible....right?:-D

_'My capacity for happiness', he added, 'you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first'.

- Marvin, the robot.
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Paul Selormey

Count me in :(( Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

peterchen

you can compensate for almost every "deficiency" with hard work - however, if a->-b->c requires no cognitive load (i.e. it's an one clock machine instruction), it's much easier to arrive at z then when a->b is a subroutine. I would like to add to the "more female" approach's description: that in parallel "a->b->v->x" and "a->y->r->v" and many others are evaluated, and recognizing "z" as solution is sometimes an additional challenge. Not that "this is how man think and that how women think" - but IMO men are more prone to launch less threads, but devote almost all processing power to the onethat looks most promising; whereas women tend to launch more threads, and treat them more fairly. lauren wrote: can i say this then ... *sniggaz* no problem with that ;) yes if a min amount of the technical insight is there (which requires some experience with and prior dedication to the a->b->c processing). A good programmer, and a good project project manager, will need to have a fair amount of both, otherwise they are just code monkeys or clueless ties. Not to forget: women tend to be better at social skills (not always concious), which can do a great deal of project managment, too ;)

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l a u r e n

i'll say simply this: when i was writing simulators for the british navy i got taken on board a submarine and showed around (we were doing submarine simulators) ... whilst being shown round i was informed by one rear admiral type guy that whilst women had been admitted into the surface navy (the look on his face told me what he thought of that) they were still not and probably never would be admitted into the sub-surface navy having seen how 100+ guys live for 10 weeks at a strectch underwater all i could think was "yah right bud and i cant think of a single woman i know who would want to serve here" i think that has a lot to do with your original point

"... 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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l a u r e n

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

"... 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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Roger Wright

Simple: Color Screen + Mouse + Internet (big pipe) = Ultimate TV Remote. All male programming effort ultimately boils down to a quest to control the view. The high salaries also attract men because of the possibilities they provide for getting someone else to fetch the beer. Word of the day: Rotundacrat
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