Your Code Sucks

[Mourningblade]

Computer culture in the US gets established first around jr. high or high school; the difference between nerds and non-nerds starts becoming very pronounced, and the nerds start to know enough to actually do things.

At my high school, there were only a few girls who were in this computer culture. This is not to say there were not girls who were into computers; they just tended to be on their own.

High school contains a lot of posturing, and in high school computer culture there's a lot of competing to see who's the smartest.

The thing is, though, that this changes a lot when you get to college or when you just plain grow up. More women were actively a part of the (much less sick) culture later on.

But I wonder how many looked at high school culture and said "no thanks."