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In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games
New submitter Esteanil writes Researchers in the University of Sussex's Informatics department asked pupils at a secondary school to design and program their own computer game using a new visual programming language. The young people, aged 12-13, spent eight weeks developing their own 3D role-playing games.
The girls in the classroom wrote more complex programs in their games than the boys and also learnt more about coding.
The girls used seven different triggers – almost twice as many as the boys – and were much more successful at creating complex scripts with two or more parts and conditional clauses.
Boys nearly always chose to trigger their scripts on when a character says something, which is the first and easiest trigger to learn.
Girls *do* write computer games... Zoe Quinn wrote a thrilling game, it is so enjoyable the first page features a link to a suicide hotline !
No, seriously, I have no idea on which kind of utterly bad trip she was when she wrote that... "thing". Even more calling it a "game". And worth, she tried to market that thing by literally fucking around... She might have mixed shroom, CNS depressant, and a whole cocktail of other drugs to get there...