What people do want to do is make CS a friendlier, less misogynist environment.
CS by itself "friendly" nor "misogynist". As a career, it is quite gender-independent. Most of the time it involves machines and how to make them do things.
The co-students or professors might be sexist on some particular case, on this or that University, but I dont think it is important enough to drive so many women out of it.
Try giving your boy a doll and your girl a car.
They will either interchange them inmediately, or wait until the rest of children start making fun of them for liking those toys.
Money doesn't follow good-hearted human rules. It follows rules like demmand, availability, and specialisation. It doesn't care what is important for you, I'm afraid.
CS people are fewer than HHD people, and there's more demmand for them; so they get a higher pay.
Highly specialized people, like sub-aquatic construction workers (the kind of people that repair petrol stations on site) have a higher salary because of the same reason.
You actually believe that there's some sort of critical thinking involved on creationism and at the same time science is just a matter of faith, or this is just a trap question in order to see who gets tricked into answering?
1. Discipline != Beating up
2. It happened too. It is just that it didnt get the same media coverage it gets these days. Or do you think men did not kill their wives back then?
As an acredited Spore aficionado, I must say that:
More than half of humans on planet Earth live on the Civilization Phase, and most of the rest is still on the Tribal phase [see this UN population report]
We have some few people working on the Space phase, but they're vestigial.
But the Creature phase is over. We can't grow horns, wings or an extra pair of legs any more.
Bummer.
Start by reading Stop death by Powerpoint. What it says is applicable to any presentation in the world. If you dont' have a cannon for projecting stuff, maybe you can type something on video, or even bring a laptop and attach it to a tv. Or print something. But bring in some visuals. And practice; if you don't have experience making presentations, practice. Children get bored more easily than adults.
So, that's *how* I would explain it. Regarding *what* to explain, it doesn't make sense that you go into detail. Your day to day probably is too abstract for them to pick any sense, mainly because they probably don't know anything about aerospace anyway.
I would put myself in context. I'd start saying that aerospace is very complex. And complex means lots of things to do, which means lots of people doing a lot of things. And those tasks depend on each other (I'd probably use the metaphore of a body, or show them a picture of a plane, with the aprox amount of people needed for making a wing, the tail, etc, from start to end). I'd explain very rougthly, like with one phrase, what are the main tasks for building a plane. And then explain how did i fit in there.
Then, i would explain how a regular day is. I'd try to relate it with things that they might know ("how many of you use messenger? xbox live? well, the server on the other side, i take care of it)
I'd explain what happens when things go wrong (show explosions! put a clip of Rambo shooting rockets and say "this is me turning off the server that day"!!). Try to think of some anecdote that happened to you and they might find interesting.
Because some of us actually don't code for money.
I work in a consultancy company during the day. This involves 0 coding skills, all management. I dont like it much, but the pay is good.
On the other hand, I have started coding with one friend. A little RoR app. We charge some money for our it, but that alone would not even feed me. Some sundays we make 9-hours shifts. We have fun.
If I didnt do this, I'd probably collaborate with some opensource project.
Assessment1, in other words, assessment2.
The article fails to prove any relation between assessments 1 and 2. This should have never arrived to Slashdot's front page.
If it were me, i wouldnt mind.
I would actually have left a bunch of carefully crafted trails, so you can deduce why everything happened.
Unless I died by accident. Then you would have to do with my "If you are reading this and you are not me, then I assume you have cracked up my e-mail password" e-mail. Quite fun to write.
Create an specific parragraph style (i.e. XML code) for the XML bits you want to put in your document. In terms of borders and background, make it as complicated or minimallistic as you wish, but I strongly suggest using courier new our any other monospace font.
You may also find useful to tag every document with a caption, so you can reference it later on (and do things such as "see the example on page xxx", with xxx being a reference).
I just can't believe that no one in the/. crowd brought this before, so let me do it.
I believe that man and the universe was created by a supreme being called the Flying Spagetti Monster (FSM).
I think that it should also be taught at schools as an alternative to evolution.
www.venganza.org.
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What people do want to do is make CS a friendlier, less misogynist environment.
CS by itself "friendly" nor "misogynist". As a career, it is quite gender-independent. Most of the time it involves machines and how to make them do things.
The co-students or professors might be sexist on some particular case, on this or that University, but I dont think it is important enough to drive so many women out of it.
It is just that they don't like it in general.
Try giving your boy a doll and your girl a car. They will either interchange them inmediately, or wait until the rest of children start making fun of them for liking those toys.
Money doesn't follow good-hearted human rules. It follows rules like demmand, availability, and specialisation. It doesn't care what is important for you, I'm afraid. CS people are fewer than HHD people, and there's more demmand for them; so they get a higher pay. Highly specialized people, like sub-aquatic construction workers (the kind of people that repair petrol stations on site) have a higher salary because of the same reason.
You actually believe that there's some sort of critical thinking involved on creationism and at the same time science is just a matter of faith, or this is just a trap question in order to see who gets tricked into answering?
1. Discipline != Beating up
2. It happened too. It is just that it didnt get the same media coverage it gets these days. Or do you think men did not kill their wives back then?
you forgot the "period".
Hey, i thought it was actually the opposite. We Europeans are getting more americanized. We're getting fatter.
As an acredited Spore aficionado, I must say that: More than half of humans on planet Earth live on the Civilization Phase, and most of the rest is still on the Tribal phase [see this UN population report] We have some few people working on the Space phase, but they're vestigial. But the Creature phase is over. We can't grow horns, wings or an extra pair of legs any more. Bummer.
Start by reading Stop death by Powerpoint. What it says is applicable to any presentation in the world. If you dont' have a cannon for projecting stuff, maybe you can type something on video, or even bring a laptop and attach it to a tv. Or print something. But bring in some visuals. And practice; if you don't have experience making presentations, practice. Children get bored more easily than adults.
So, that's *how* I would explain it. Regarding *what* to explain, it doesn't make sense that you go into detail. Your day to day probably is too abstract for them to pick any sense, mainly because they probably don't know anything about aerospace anyway.
I would put myself in context. I'd start saying that aerospace is very complex. And complex means lots of things to do, which means lots of people doing a lot of things. And those tasks depend on each other (I'd probably use the metaphore of a body, or show them a picture of a plane, with the aprox amount of people needed for making a wing, the tail, etc, from start to end). I'd explain very rougthly, like with one phrase, what are the main tasks for building a plane. And then explain how did i fit in there.
Then, i would explain how a regular day is. I'd try to relate it with things that they might know ("how many of you use messenger? xbox live? well, the server on the other side, i take care of it)
I'd explain what happens when things go wrong (show explosions! put a clip of Rambo shooting rockets and say "this is me turning off the server that day"!!). Try to think of some anecdote that happened to you and they might find interesting.
Just my 2 cents :)
Sidewalks *do* affect driving.
They would not have come up with an uglier design if they had tried.
Because some of us actually don't code for money. I work in a consultancy company during the day. This involves 0 coding skills, all management. I dont like it much, but the pay is good. On the other hand, I have started coding with one friend. A little RoR app. We charge some money for our it, but that alone would not even feed me. Some sundays we make 9-hours shifts. We have fun. If I didnt do this, I'd probably collaborate with some opensource project.
Was alive and well last time I checked. But that's because it is such a great tool.
Assessment1, in other words, assessment2. The article fails to prove any relation between assessments 1 and 2. This should have never arrived to Slashdot's front page.
That.
Only The Hoff is up to the challenge, if RD is unavailable.
If it were me, i wouldnt mind. I would actually have left a bunch of carefully crafted trails, so you can deduce why everything happened. Unless I died by accident. Then you would have to do with my "If you are reading this and you are not me, then I assume you have cracked up my e-mail password" e-mail. Quite fun to write.
Create an specific parragraph style (i.e. XML code) for the XML bits you want to put in your document. In terms of borders and background, make it as complicated or minimallistic as you wish, but I strongly suggest using courier new our any other monospace font.
You may also find useful to tag every document with a caption, so you can reference it later on (and do things such as "see the example on page xxx", with xxx being a reference).
I just can't believe that no one in the /. crowd brought this before, so let me do it.
I believe that man and the universe was created by a supreme being called the Flying Spagetti Monster (FSM).
I think that it should also be taught at schools as an alternative to evolution.
www.venganza.org.