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Rails Girls Cluj lightning talk about programming, history and everything.
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Programming in the real world
A bit of history...
Ada Countess of Lovelace !"enchantress of numbers" !
- b. 1815 - algorithm for Bernoulli numbers
!
The women of ENIAC
- ENIAC = first digital computer (1945) - programmed using ~3000 switches
Radia Perlman"the mother of the internet"
!
- spanning tree protocol (1985)
3 reasons
You already know how to program- alarm clock, thermostat, TV
"Women lead in tech adoption"
!
- internet usage - mobile phone usage - every social network (except LinkedIn) - e-readers - health-care devices - GPS
source: Intel research
It's not a guy's thing
- it's a cultural thing
"Programming requires patience and the ability to handle detail. Women are 'naturals' at programming"
It's not a guy's thing
It's not a guy's thing
"Men were interested in building, the hardware, doing the circuits, figuring out the machinery. And women
were very good mathematicians back then."
Best way to learn
- find something you like to make - keep looking for that feeling