Why Most Women Can’t Engineer This fourth edition of Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne’s Algorithms is the leading textbook on algorithms today and is widely used in colleges and universities worldwide. This book surveys the most important computer algorithms currently in use and provides a full treatment of data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, graph processing, and string processing–including fifty algorithms every programmer should know. In this edition, new Java implementations are written in an a…
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This is explains how I feel perfectly. The last time I worked with a woman, I was 17 years old and she drove to my house once (her fiancee coming along) so I could help her with some CSS templates because she had to deliver that the next day. I sat down with her and did her work for her in two hours and this is something she had a whole week to do. This left such an impression in me that, to this day, I’m naturally skeptical of women developers (since, naturally, 100% of the women I’ve worked with sucked).
I know for a fact there are some very good women out there but I would go out on a limb and say that passion is what makes the difference and that also applies to men. Women might complain that the interview processes are too demanding or hard or “male-oriented”, etc, but it’s true that many men also have problems with a simple FizzBuzz. Engineering is great because it is very objective, specially CS – you either get it or you don’t, there’s no bullshitting around or talking your way out of a problem.
With that said, I’ve never met a woman in person that would know what a Radix Tree and most of the ones that know probably know it from an algorithms class, not because they bought a book and learned it for fun. Same applies for men too – at the end of the day, passion and curiosity and drive to learn more – knowledge for the sake of knowledge – is what makes the difference.
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Why Most Women Can’t Engineer
This fourth edition of Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne’s Algorithms is the leading textbook on algorithms today and is widely used in colleges and universities worldwide. This book surveys the most important computer algorithms currently in use and provides a full treatment of data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, graph processing, and string processing–including fifty algorithms every programmer should know. In this edition, new Java implementations are written in an a…
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Most popular programming book on Reddit. rank no. 19
This is explains how I feel perfectly. The last time I worked with a woman, I was 17 years old and she drove to my house once (her fiancee coming along) so I could help her with some CSS templates because she had to deliver that the next day. I sat down with her and did her work for her in two hours and this is something she had a whole week to do. This left such an impression in me that, to this day, I’m naturally skeptical of women developers (since, naturally, 100% of the women I’ve worked with sucked).
I know for a fact there are some very good women out there but I would go out on a limb and say that passion is what makes the difference and that also applies to men. Women might complain that the interview processes are too demanding or hard or “male-oriented”, etc, but it’s true that many men also have problems with a simple FizzBuzz. Engineering is great because it is very objective, specially CS – you either get it or you don’t, there’s no bullshitting around or talking your way out of a problem.
With that said, I’ve never met a woman in person that would know what a Radix Tree and most of the ones that know probably know it from an algorithms class, not because they bought a book and learned it for fun. Same applies for men too – at the end of the day, passion and curiosity and drive to learn more – knowledge for the sake of knowledge – is what makes the difference.
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