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Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code

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I think the list should include women's colleges. Many of them have great CS programs, and by definition avoid the problem of being the only woman in a class full of guys.

http://cs.smith.edu

http://www.wellesley.edu/cs

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/computerscience

http://cs.brynmawr.edu/content/

I also recommend creating a nickname on Freenode (IRC) and an account on Github. Both are fairly non-biased, genderless ways of meeting people interested in technology and being around others learning to code.

This is what I would suggest to anyone interested in learning that doesn't have some social event nearby that they can go to. It's what people did 10+ years ago when they were interested but isolated and presumably still works.

My 9 year-old girl has really enjoyed YouthDigital.com's courses so far. They're expensive, but extremely kid-friendly and practical (the Minecraft Mod Design 1* course is especially fun).

*http://www.youthdigital.com/mod-design-1.html

All: Drive-by one-liners and shrill sarcasm are not helpful. Those of you posting these are ruining this thread and, by extension, this site. You're not contributing, you're venting. That is not what Hacker News is for, so please stop.

If you can't comment in the spirit of what PG wrote here:

A comment should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side. [1]

... then kindly don't post anything until you can. This holds regardless of the position you're trying to bolster—which you're not bolstering at all, but detracting from.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761

It is a detail but the word "Amazing" was not in the original title and I think it should not be here too. It just looks like linkbait and will annoy most people.

You're right. And the arbitrary number 13 should have been edited out, as well, per the HN guidelines:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

The submitted title ("13 Amazing Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code") kept the number and added a gratuitous adjective, which is a little like missing a "Wrong Way" sign while driving down a one-way street.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ugh, it's stuff like this that perpetuates the idea that men and women have different abilities to learn coding.

It's more like a women's only gym. It's to avoid guys (who have a hard enough time meeting girls).

It puts many people off to discover they're the only one of their gender in the room. That creates a self-reinforcing problem.

Projects like those linked above help break that circle.

This will only serve to widen the rift between the two genders.

Female-only developer camps?! How utterly patronising!

Why can't they learn like the rest of us? Alone in our bedrooms

Don't forget we do this while crying about not meeting women.

Agree - what in the world is stopping women to learn all by themselves like most of us did?

It's not *patronizing to cater to a specific gender. It's to avoid boys, who are gross.

Yes, boys are the bane of human existence. /s

Yeah! I see No Reason At All that a teenage girl might feel uncomfortable going to a coding camp where she'd likely be outnumbered 10:1 by teenage boys!

Right. Wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. That would be terrible.

I absolutely agree: women should be allowed to form their own spaces to learn programming if they'd like, especially if it makes them more comfortable, and it means they won't have to put up with harassment from assholes!

Glad we're on the same page!

Hooray another discriminatory organization that gives preference to individuals based on attributes they are born with!

I'm sure the funders are also dumping money into "13 Amazing Places Where Men and Boys can learn to be Nurses / Teachers / Homemakers"

Encouaraging men into teaching:

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/07/in_south_carolina_an_...

Encouraging men into nursing:

http://aamn.org/choosenursing.shtml

That was 10 seconds of googling.

Really nice work on the keyboard there...

Any chance you can google up the disparity in funding between the "women in tech" vs. the "men in x" campaigns for me too?

Please stop.

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