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Do enough people really have a subscription to the Washington Post? Or is this trending purely because a lot of people agree with the opinionated title?

Does no one see what's happening? This whole thing is a massive sign of progress. Men are deeply scared of an increasingly growing population of female developers. This is a pretty significant moment of anxiety and fear. That's good. It means there's change. It's no coincidence that more women are joining CS AP courses than ever before:

"HIGH-SCHOOL GIRLS ARE taking more Advanced Placement computer engineering exams than ever before, according to a new report from Code.org and the College Board. In 2017, largely thanks to a new test aimed at expanding the reach of engineering classes, female participation in these AP tests increased at a faster rate than young boys’ participation on the exam in 2017."

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/ap-computer-science-2017/

The calendar is not working for me. It shows grey bars instead of text.

I think parts of the US have already started making coding mandatory (like Chicago: http://cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_03_19_2014.aspx) but it’s a slow uptake. I think other countries (Finland and other EU countries) allow kids to specialize in CS early on (~age 14) when American students are starting high school which gives them more of an edge.

Really interesting graphs at the bottom of the article, which compare the rise of FinTech and the rise of Python. Makes sense why finance companies use Python--they're usually less interested in mathematical languages and more interested in getting stuff done faster and more easily.

I think a lot of people forget this:

'Programming is a scientific tool'

Computer science is not really a brand new field. It's built upon decades of programming in physics, bio, etc. etc. basically most scientific fields.

I think that millennial gif is cool.

I guess this is the up side of coding interviews, where academics can avoid the "overqualified" or "irrelevant experience" or "no recent experience" problem.

True - you can't go too far in programming without math.

Good resource list at the end of this article for people who want to become better at math/coding:

Resources to Help Boost Confidence in Math:

Forget what you learned in school (memorizing theorems or trig identities won’t help you). Instead, learn to recognize problems and choose the right formula.

Read great books (Links to free versions in the article)

      Art of Problem Solving

      Mathematics for Computer Science (free eBook)

      Godel Escher Bach (free eBook)

Yeah, I think we have all been there at one point. Spending hours tweaking every single line in a resume to make it match the job description perfectly.

It just doesn't work for people that come from different backgrounds. This story offers some hope.

Even though he's from hardware, and his programming experience dates back to the '70s, he was able to prove his skills by solving a coding challenge.

I'm working on hardware right now along with software, and I'll have to be careful when I apply for jobs in the future.

If the article is great, then I don't see the harm.

It's worse when an article is completely misleading and the content/subject is underwhelming. This is definitely not the worst example of this.

I think you're really underestimating these strong women. The title is not misleading because of this point:

"I was one of the first few girls on the Georgian team in IOI and I was the second Georgian girl to win a medal."

It doesn't matter if they are 2nd not 1st place. Bottom line is that these strong, awesome women are setting a great example.

Wow, this was really inspiring. There are probably hundreds of girls/women like this, but they don't make headlines as often. This is awesome.

The youngest sister may even grow up in a world where she doesn't have the same barriers as most women today.

Could this be a sign of positive change?