My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 2, 2015 @04:18AM from the awfully-thin-skin dept.

theodp writes: To paraphrase the J. Geils Band, Maddie Zug's high school computer science homework is the centerfold. In a Washington Post op-ed, Zug, a student at the top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, argues that a centerfold does not belong in the classroom. "I first saw a picture of Playboy magazine's Miss November 1972 a year ago as a junior at TJ," Zug explains. "My artificial intelligence teacher told our class to search Google for Lena Soderberg (not the full image, though!) and use her picture to test our latest coding assignment...Soderberg has a history with computer science. In the 1970s, male programmers at the University of Southern California needed to test their image-processing algorithm. They scanned what they had handy: the centerfold of a Playboy magazine. Before long, the image became a convention in industry and academia." (Wikipedia has a nice background, too.)

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Re:She has a point. by ShanghaiBill · 2015-05-02 06:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Teenage humans are fans of pornography sites.
When did you last leave your mom's basement and talk to a real woman? Next time your mom brings your dinner down, ask her what she thinks about porn sites. If you seriously believe that porn is equally popular with both men and women, you need to get in touch with reality.