Re:When Women Stopped Coding
by CalRobert on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:47PM
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Hmm.. I wonder if that's true of younger programmers, but I don't think I've met a single one around my age (early 30's, late 20's) who didn't start when they were young. I got my start near the end of high school and I felt _impossibly_ late. I still do, frankly.
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Re:When Women Stopped Coding
by frostmatthew on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @09:18PM
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> I don't think I've met a single one around my age (early 30's, late 20's) who didn't start when they were young.
This is probably partly confirmation basis and partly insufficient data. I doubt every time you meet a fellow developer you ask them how old they were when they first started programming.
I'm 35 and didn't start coding until about four years ago (when I decided to go back to school and switch careers) - there's another dev on my team that started even later, and I know several that never wrote a line of code before college. So yeah we're out there.