There were only 3 girls in my cohort CIS class in college :
- One blonde chick was pretty hot. Had some serious mental issues (litterally did....something about her childhood...) though. Was a lot older than all of us at the time but didn't look the age though (she was about 28-29). Unfortunately, she developed brain cancer....disappeared for a few semesters for treatment, and returned back as a totally wierd new person.... She talked big and made her self appeared very experience in the coding field, made fun of us for actually understanding C++, but during labs and tests showed nothing to brag about. She never graduated...such a tragedy.
- African-American chick, really hot but kinda quiet and distant from all of us. She was a few semesters ahead of us, and was proven to be a competant programmer and actually understood the concepts of it. I had to helped her out a couple of times for some of her coding projects. Develop a close friendship with her but after she graduated, never heard from her since. I think she would of did pretty decent in the coding field...
- Another female was a mother of 2, in her early thirties. She understood the concepts and theory, but couldnt code for sh*t. She did however, put out the most effort and i think had she had more time with it may have been better....
So in the end, i personally still think that females are still behind in the coding field. And its not because they lack the skill or intelligence (or maybe it is...i dunno), but rather, they don't seem to have the drive or seemingly undivided absolute interest in it as a lot of males are. To accomplish a certain coding work, guys would work on it day in and day out non-stop.....I just never met a female that would do the same as a programmer.
Ironically though, my very first programming teacher in Computer Science was a female, and she knew her sh*t but then again shes been doing this stuff since the 60s....
- One blonde chick was pretty hot. Had some serious mental issues (litterally did....something about her childhood...) though. Was a lot older than all of us at the time but didn't look the age though (she was about 28-29). Unfortunately, she developed brain cancer....disappeared for a few semesters for treatment, and returned back as a totally wierd new person.... She talked big and made her self appeared very experience in the coding field, made fun of us for actually understanding C++, but during labs and tests showed nothing to brag about. She never graduated...such a tragedy.
- African-American chick, really hot but kinda quiet and distant from all of us. She was a few semesters ahead of us, and was proven to be a competant programmer and actually understood the concepts of it. I had to helped her out a couple of times for some of her coding projects. Develop a close friendship with her but after she graduated, never heard from her since. I think she would of did pretty decent in the coding field...
- Another female was a mother of 2, in her early thirties. She understood the concepts and theory, but couldnt code for sh*t. She did however, put out the most effort and i think had she had more time with it may have been better....
So in the end, i personally still think that females are still behind in the coding field. And its not because they lack the skill or intelligence (or maybe it is...i dunno), but rather, they don't seem to have the drive or seemingly undivided absolute interest in it as a lot of males are. To accomplish a certain coding work, guys would work on it day in and day out non-stop.....I just never met a female that would do the same as a programmer.
Ironically though, my very first programming teacher in Computer Science was a female, and she knew her sh*t but then again shes been doing this stuff since the 60s....