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Re:In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in... by badpun on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:41PM (#19434088)
During my CS studies, a considerable number of male students were computer geeks who were playing with computers pre-uni. Female students, OTOH, were 100% oblivious of any fundamental concepts (ex. what is programming). That could explain the disparity - they had a lot of catching up to do, esp. at the beginning.
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Re:In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in... by zanny on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:48PM (#19438443)
It wasn't 100% at all. If anything, I found that the only female students were the computer nerds and there were almost no "CS-curious" women enrolling.

I'd also then go on to say in my experience the student who went into a CS program for the stability and potential money "CS-curious" over passion for it might do better on scholastic tests of computer science while being less capable of actually programming well.

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