Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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The objection is factual, not political. Few CS undergrads have deep experience with programming before school.
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That may well be true today. Didn’t feel like the case in early 90s. Did we stop teaching programming in schools? Why?
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No. In the 80's and 90's home computers were marketed to boys. And we're still living with the impact of that in terms of gender gap.
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Microcomputers weren't marketed to boys when they first appeared, but only boys were interested in them.
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I hear the exact same lie today, women aren't interested in learning to code. We tweak our message and get more women than men at open days.
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I believe the decrease in female CS majors was due to microcomputers. What's not true is that this was because they were marketed to boys.
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The history of microcomputer marketing is effectively a controlled experiment proving this.
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In the beginning it was completely neutral ("16K RAM!"), yet the people it attracted were very disproportionately male.
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Understand. Parents should demand programming be part of their school’s curriculum. Might be taught by rank amateurs but still will learn.
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Neither of you have ever met a poor person in your lives, have you?
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