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For some reason women are generally encouraged to do web design and javascript and in women's programming courses people hesitate to introduce meatier topics like go etc. I don't know why this is. Stuff is presented as being very "hard" even when the women present are math majors. | For some reason women are generally encouraged to do web design and javascript and in women's programming courses people hesitate to introduce meatier topics like go etc. I don't know why this is. Stuff is presented as being very "hard" even when the women present are math majors. | ||
=== | '''Building yourself and your mind is the best thing you can do for society because then you are all that you can be''' | ||
=== Positive patterns === | |||
* Women often are made to feel guilty for doing stuff for the sheer intellectual pleasure of doing it. | * Women often are made to feel guilty for doing stuff for the sheer intellectual pleasure of doing it. | ||
* It is ok to not work in children's education | * It is ok to not work in children's education | ||
* It is ok not to do stuff for the benefit of charity | * It is ok not to do stuff for the benefit of charity | ||
That being said, women's programming groups should be creative and actually result in fun coding and exist as a human being, not a servant to society! | |||
We have a GitHub at SudoRoom here: | |||
https://github.com/sudoroom | |||
Most of the projects are started by men, and I've seen many promising women diverted over the years to projects like charity and children's education. It's pretty disappointing and a huge waste of potential. | |||