women in programming: the challenge and the opportunity (and more links!)
posted by clara Sep 2, 2011 @ 5:27 PM • 0 comments
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- This fall, Stanford is offering a free online course in databases — a great choice for anyone interested in programming but without much database experience, since database design is a key part of many real-world programming applications.
- SingPath is a set of free online programming exercises in a variety of languages, starting from the absolute basics; a great way for a beginning programmer to get started or for a more experienced programmer to learn a new language.
- Could the next Steve Jobs be a woman? Pricilla Oppenheimer thinks so.
- Ohio LinuxFest is looking for volunteers to help with registration, staffing their bookstore, and more.
- Programmer Lindsey Bieda has a well-researched blog post refuting the claim that the lack of women in programming is not a bug. She also has a followup post with some action steps to help encourage new programmers.
- Emma Mulqueeny, who runs the hack day program Rewired State, posts about the need to start teaching kids to program at younger ages to avoid the effects of the social stereotypes that discourage teenage girls from programming. She also has a followup post with specific tools and techniques that are useful for teaching programming to younger students.
- Here’s a video profile of an MIT student who built her own airplane!
- Anna Lewis writes in the Washington Post about the original “computers” and computer programmers — mostly women — and how we can reverse the decline in women’s participating in computing that’s occurred since the early days.
- Programmer Vanessa Hurst discusses the opportunity for women in technology and the need for diversity, collaboration, and inclusion in software development.
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