While your point about knitting patterns being largely unchanged by computers is true, there are a few very good software-enabled knitting tools out there:
- KnitCompanion is a complex but extremely powerful app to take PDF patterns and turn them into very efficient, effective digital patterns. You can designate specific steps, walk through steps and charts with voice control, extensively reformat a pattern, etc. I use this for all moderately complex knitting.
- TinCanKnits is a pair of pattern designers who have recently released an app for their own patterns that customizes the pattern (showing only your size, changing chart colors to match your yarn, etc.)
- CustomFit by Amy Herzog is a tool with a collection of sweater designs that can be fully customized to your own gauge, measurements, design preferences, etc.
- There are a number of calculators out there for sock knitting (how many stitches/rows for heel flap, gusset calculations, etc.).
Not necessarily. I'm not presenting this as fact, but merely as a a possible situation and counterexample to what you describe:
Your reasoning would hold if you could assume identical skill distributions between men and women graduates. However, it seems somewhere between possible and likely that women graduates are of higher average skill than the men graduating. With so many barriers and cultural impedances for a woman pursuing tech, it takes at least the same skill (to pass the classes) as their male classmates, plus enough extra competency to ward off the detractors and skeptics that men don't have to deal with.
Again, I'm not saying this is reality, I certainly don't have the statistics to back it up. But it fits my experiences pretty well, and I think your analysis probably is too simplistic to be useful.
And, in regards to your second point, about starting much earlier: I absolutely agree. The more the culture changes, the less this will be an issue.
Not related to the concept, but your font choice seems suboptimal. Raleway's a beautiful typeface, but as small, thin gray letters on black background, there's a lot of subpixel rendering artifacts that make it really difficult to read. Example: http://i.imgur.com/Ips6rng.png?1
http://www.fishnet.in - Bookmarks with annotations. They're grouped into folders that you can make public/private to use as personal bookmarks, to assemble a portfolio, build a reading list, save your thoughts on articles, etc.
It's my first web app, built on Flask, and driven by my own need for such a tool.
