Interesting article. Did not expect a negative experience for the author in a post-secondary institution.
On her point about being at a disadvantage compared to the other students since she had low experience with computer science (having only taken classes in high school). In my point of view, I think she had sufficient exposure to compsci. I didn't get into computer science, or even know of its existence, until my 2nd year in university.
I definitely do think personality has an effect on the experience. The author of the article, I think, took comments and retorts too seriously or negatively. In addition, I think she uses her gender as a weakness but rather it has no effect on her ability at all. Though at least she recognized the asshole soon after his outburst.
In my experience, I don't see a decline of females in computer science, rather it is a increase. I have passed by the portraits of graduated students in my hallways and definitely there are way more females than in the previous years. Matter of fact, it was almost a 1:5 ratio of females:males (may not be super accurate).
I have to agree.
When I read the first paragraph, it seemed promising, but then he just talks about development of the world and nothing more on the aspect of MMO. If he had an outline of what he'll be looking at to code an MMO, then it would have been better.
Did not even know that Google have a form of "university" where they provide tutorials and "courses". Google definitely seems to be expanding it's horizons in what it can provide to its users. This is pretty amazing as well because other Search engines just can't seem to compete with Google (maybe yahoo) and its notoriety. Anyone else think that Google may end up taking a good portion (if not already) of the internet? That is, Google's influence over sites (such as using Google's engine on their site) and it's extending its already common usage.
( This is my first post, so hopefully this comments is in accordance to HN standards. Let me know if it isn't! :( )
On her point about being at a disadvantage compared to the other students since she had low experience with computer science (having only taken classes in high school). In my point of view, I think she had sufficient exposure to compsci. I didn't get into computer science, or even know of its existence, until my 2nd year in university.
I definitely do think personality has an effect on the experience. The author of the article, I think, took comments and retorts too seriously or negatively. In addition, I think she uses her gender as a weakness but rather it has no effect on her ability at all. Though at least she recognized the asshole soon after his outburst.
In my experience, I don't see a decline of females in computer science, rather it is a increase. I have passed by the portraits of graduated students in my hallways and definitely there are way more females than in the previous years. Matter of fact, it was almost a 1:5 ratio of females:males (may not be super accurate).