Such an important project. Resources like this could go a long way towards solving some of the diversity problems we have in tech.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aprog...
Or maybe because men can't draw as well as women?
Edit: probably I'll get downvoted for this so I'll just add that I think it's good this book is being made. Can't hurt to try different things to get kids interested. Just not sure why the gender comment was necessary.
I said nothing about gender nor did I intend to, that was your assumption.
Rather affirm that this is exactly part of what you were saying [1]. I'll one-up you: indeed, the chance of a male writing such a book is much smaller than the chance of a female writing such a book. Acting as if gender wouldn't influence choice of content and style is ridiculous.
And before anyone jumps on my back: I'm telling it like it is, which implies nothing about how I think that it should be.
[1] Why would 'diversity' be a good thing, if not for the fact that it results in, you know, more diversity? Differences in the input result in differences in the output.
So what aspects of it are female specific? Because women would be more likely to worry about educating children?
Seriously, answer the question instead of relying on prejudice, please.
I'd consent that female heroines might be more likely for female authors (didn't check, though), although in this case I suspect gender of author's children might be more important.
Edit: I have to go further - sorry, but you made me think about it. Of course the odds of a woman writing such a book are significantly smaller, simply because there are much fewer female programmers than male programmers.
Of course the odds of a woman writing such a book are
significantly smaller, simply because there are much fewer
female programmers than male programmers.
Which implies I assume P(female programmer writing such a book) / P(male programmer writing such a book) > P(male programmer writing book) / P(female programmer writing book). Also P(female programmer writing such a book|female programmer writing book) > P(male programmer writing such a book|male programmer writing book)
So what aspects of it are female specific?
What a bigoted comment. OP is praising diversity, and you are suggesting what, exactly? That there isn't an issue if everyone in a field approaches a problem in the exact same way? Are you really that small minded?
Your comment also sounds as if you think women would approach the issue in a completely different way than men, so please explain in which way?
Maybe men would be less likely to use a female protagonist, I haven't sampled the books content. Maybe not. So it's maybe nice to have a programming book with a female protagonist, but I doubt it is something only women would think of.
In fact I suppose if a man who has a daughter were to write such a book, he would be quite likely to make the protagonist female, too.
Btw. the Python books for kids looks as if there are also stories in it, and I saw at least one rave review from an 8 year old: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Progr...
Maybe Alice in Wonderland would work, too?