Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
by sigstoat on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:43PM
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my father taught programming and CS-lite courses at a community college for decades. whatever culture the students have, it sure as hell isn't the valley one, or anything like i saw in university.
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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
by ucaetano on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:48PM
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I'm not talking about valley culture, but, for example, liking star wars, XKCD, Tolkien, video games, etc.
Do the students in those community colleges share that as well?
Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
by sigstoat on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:57PM
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i know what you're talking about, and no, his students didn't share that culture, or any other you're worried about. or probably any you've ever even seen unless you're from the rural south. in which case we wouldn't even be having this conversation in the first place.
Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
by true_religion on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:46PM
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At my old university, we were the kind of programmers that HN and the Valley in general loves to hate: bro-grammers.
Half the students were in a fraternity or sorority, and the engineering college as a whole had its own co-ed service fraternity.
Most common topics of discussion: beer, that last episode of Miami Vice, and trading tips on how to beg professors for server time so we can complete our final projects and graduate.