Hello,
Via Mike Godwin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html…
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“Most of the female students were unwilling to go on in computer science
because of the stereotypes they had grown up with,” said Zachary Dodds,
a computer scientist at Mudd. “We realized we were helping perpetuate
that by teaching such a standard course.”
To reduce the intimidation factor, the course was divided into two
sections — “gold,” for those with no prior experience, and “black” for
everyone else. Java, a notoriously opaque programming language, was
replaced by a more accessible language called Python. And the focus of
the course changed to computational approaches to solving problems
across science.
“We realized that we needed to show students computer science is not all
about programming,” said Ran Libeskind-Hadas, chairman of the
department. “It has intellectual depth and connections to other
disciplines.”
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Most of the article is about Dr Maria Klawe, who seems to be a very inspiring person.
Best wishes,
Lennart
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