[Techtalk] Preaching to the choir

[Andrea Landaker]

> 	Maybe some here would be inteersted. New York Times Article on computing
> and "girls'.
> 	You need to go through a free sign-process

Bleh, one of the reasons I think there's not more young women interested in 
computers is articles like this!  C'mon, who wants to hear things like, 
"[Girls] just don't understand how they work."  Is that encouraging?  No!  
Let's make articles like these a little more positive -- more women are in 
computer science now than there were 10 years ago.  

At least the article did give some positive examples, and I think it's great 
that schools are trying different approaches to interest a wider variety of 
people in computer science.  There are definitely better ways to teach it 
than the generic lecture-and-assignment.

-- 
Andrea Landaker
qirien at icecavern.net
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/