Hey Kate & others, I read this blog by Jean Hsu, she used to work at Google which I found via Hacker News. She wrote a post the other day about females in computing and how she got into it.
http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/05/01/i-learned-to-program/ Two interesting comments on her post: 1. Most female contributors' experiences were very different, and seemed to be mostly about learning to program in a high school or college class or getting introduced to programming through another interest (design, biology, music, etc). 2. At the same time, I can't help but think of the many women who fell through the cracks (what the book refers to as the "leaky pipeline") because they felt like they didn't have enough experience, and couldn't catch up with their mostly male peers (of course, this probably applies to many men without previous programming experience as well). She also references this book called "Unlocking the clubhouse: Women in computing" which might be relevant to you. http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Margolis/dp/0262632691/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 On May 2, 5:45 pm, Tagmotion <tagmot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two more (who presented at last year's Sydney Bloggers' Festival): > 1. Jackie Maxted - Beauty Heaven > 2. Juliet Potter - Auto Chic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
