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Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language.
Students who did not have the privilege of hacking since they were young are at a disadvantage in Computer Science (CS). However, CS departments can teach introductory programming using an obscure...
View ArticleLaurian’s Living the Impostor Syndrome
One of the many awesome women I met at Grace Hopper posted this experience she had with a student: So far in the grading it seems like everyone did their fair share of the work. Then I get to the last...
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Can you accomplish more with a female instructor?
IBM Extreme Blue Case Study Competition-4264 by Terriko. I don’t get what the bit about Obama and Desperate Housewives at the start of this article from Slate entitled “Pscyh-out sexism” is trying to...
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Lessons learned from the Boston Python Workshop, an outreach event for women
This is a guest post by Jessica McKellar. Jessica is a software engineer and an organizer for the Boston Python Meetup. This entry originally appeared at the OpenHatch.org blog. My name is Jessica, and...
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– the anxiety of learning and how I am beating it
Beating learn-to-program anxiety with good gamification and courses I have anxiety about learning technical skills. I wrote about this a little while back. But now I know more about how I learn, and,...
View ArticleFrom “sit still” to “scratch your own itch”
When I started off in open source, I believed that bit of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” that said: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. Regardless of the truth...
View ArticleThe Linkspam is Coming from Inside the House (27 May 2013)
We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle, and Slaves Narrative: “Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have...
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