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From: Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 4:24 PM
Subject: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Another Female Geeks Article)
> On a completely different subject, what is a better, non-adversarial way
> of analyzing a design? The w
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Feb-100 Re: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Ano.. by
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> What I'm afraid of is that kids today are learning mostly user skills---
> they don't seem to be learning programming as much at young ages as i did.
> they're learning to operate windoze. Getting girls to us
Laurel Fan wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the approach most of those
> get-girls-to-like-technology programs seems to be very oriented towards
> industry, ie they say "Look, computers are a good career, you can make
> lots of money"; they promote technology as work, not fun. I'm not sure
> this
#if Laurel Fan
> On a completely different subject, what is a better, non-adversarial way
> of analyzing a design? The whole "you point out problems and I'll tell
> you why they're not" thing seems to work pretty well for me...
If you haven't got it written down in English, with diagrams, do tha
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, srl wrote:
> Well, it might; in a society where money is power, if you promote
> computers as the way to get money, and girls learn to work with
> technology, then those females will advance in social status. But you're
> right, the current approach is very industry-focused. W
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Laurel Fan wrote:
> It seems to me that the approach most of those
> get-girls-to-like-technology programs seems to be very oriented towards
> industry, ie they say "Look, computers are a good career, you can make
> lots of money"; they promote technology as work, not fun. I
On Wired this time.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34175,00.html?tw=wn2215
Nothing really new here. This one's more about the "industry". More
and more, I've been thinking about how different the computer industry
(Silicon Valley, Microsoft, .com, venture capital, IT, IPOs, etc.
