[Edu-sig] Re: [Tutor] Girls, women and Programming (- and Python)

[Kirby Urner]

At 12:45 PM 8/20/2002 +1200, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

>So back to the girls and programming, yse, there will be girls who like
>the idea, and are great at it, but dont go pushing all girl;s into it
>just to satisfy your own ideals...  Let them take it or leave it
>depending on their own desires.

For the sake of discussion, we could buy your assertion that programming
is more of a "guy thing" and then talk about what about programming
makes it so.

But we could also, for the sake of discussion, suggest that once girls
break the stereotypes and get into programming in a bigger way, it'll
turn out that their just better at it than guys -- a genetic thing.

But the whole thing about civilization is it doesn't just leave it
to the genes.  We enable people according to their aspirations even
if pure biology would tilt the balance in another direction.  So we
encourage boys to be programmers too.  :-D

>But, by all means do make them do an intorduction, cant make a choice
>with out trying can they?

Right on.




>[*] I am in fact a house dad, I look after the kids while lean earns
>the money.  Simply because we dont believe in placing young kids in
>someones care 8-10 hours a day while we both work and Leanne wanted to
>make use of her education.,

I'm sort of a house dad too.  My daughter is 8.  I do a lot of
telecommuting, as well as physical commuting.

Kirby