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Facebook Launches Initiative To Attract More Minorities and Women To Coding (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the come-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has launched TechPrep, a new initiative to attract more minorities and women into coding. The project draws a very strong analogy between the learning of computer coding skills and the learning of spoken languages, a field which is important to people whose first language is not English, and which engages with the popular understanding that women are better at learning languages. TechPrep is seeking to engage with parents and guardians to get its target audience into coding earlier in life.

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  1. It's a daily SJW treat now! by cyber-vandal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hooray smash the patriarchy!

  2. YAMICI by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    I reckon these initiatives are close to outnumbering the people in the target groups. They'll have to start moonlighting to keep up with the supply.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  3. Politically Correct Compliance Test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see what passes the PC compliance test:

          "Women are better at learning spoken languages" - PASS
          "Therefore men are not as good as woman at learning spoken languages" - Eyebrow inperceptively raised, but PASS
          "Men are better [on average] than women at computer programming" - RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT !!!

  4. Re:It is about culture. by russotto · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 2015. Many women already ARE endeared to geek culture.

    Impossible. University of Washington Assistant Professor of Social Justice Sapna Cheryan has made her career demonstrating that first of all, women don't like geek culture, and second, that's why there aren't so many women in tech, and third, if we just stomped on the geeks, made them dress like normal people and put away their toys, we'd have parity between men and women in tech.