"No one had told them—no one was telling them—that coding is one of the few careers that can take you truly extraordinary places without extraordinary experience.
That it is one of the few highly prestigious and well-paid careers that you can teach yourself entirely online and with nearly no financial resources.
That you can be a programmer without a college degree and you can start learning to code when you’re 5 or 25 or 75—there is never a time that’s too early or too late."
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP! As a woman who got into this career late-ish, this is exactly how I feel. People underestimate the power of expectations, stereotypes, whatever you want to call them - in shaping the types of careers people consider options for them. When I tell other smart, hardworking, technologically-inclined women that they, too, could learn to code, they look at me like I have three heads.
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP! As a woman who got into this career late-ish, this is exactly how I feel. People underestimate the power of expectations, stereotypes, whatever you want to call them - in shaping the types of careers people consider options for them. When I tell other smart, hardworking, technologically-inclined women that they, too, could learn to code, they look at me like I have three heads.