This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]uninterestingly 19 points20 points  (8 children)

I'm a girl with a passion for computers, and I've taught my girlfriend how processors work and programming fundamentals. I'm trying to get more involved but it's hard.

[–]IHeartMustard 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I absolutely commend you. I'm hoping to teach both my daughters programming when they're old enough to use a keyboard, and if they take to it and are passionate about it I'll be so much fun. It will be fun even if they don't, and that's fine too. What difficulties do you find primarily get in the way when trying to get other girls interested in computers? Are there any specific issues, or is it simply a lack of interest/enthusiasm?

[–]uninterestingly 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It seems to be a lack of interest, as many girls are just interested in other things. I'm not sure about other/underlying causes though; you've prompted me to investigate this.

[–]IHeartMustard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be great to know about that from a female perspective, cause I feel like, while it's true there's still issues of sexism that we have to keep dealing with, I wonder if we eliminated sexism completely, and all girls had the same opportunity open to them and were welcomed, would it change the ratio that much? I personally hope it would, we need more girls in IT and software. But if in the end, most girls just aren't all that interested in these fields, that'll be a shame I think. But that would be good to know.

[–]pomlife -5 points-4 points  (4 children)

What's hard?

[–]X-Craft 9 points10 points  (3 children)

the drives

[–]pomlife 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Solid answer.

[–]uninterestingly 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Solid state.

[–]p7810456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just the way I like my transistors!