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USED ASSETS
fonts - triggering fanfares, perspectiva sans
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/833977
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/181348
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_hat_2.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grace_Hopper.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_holding_parts_of_the_first_four_Army_computers.jpg
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/889568
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monty_closed_doors.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monty_open_door.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monty_open_door_chances.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monty_Hall_solution_expanded.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Factory_icon.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_symbol_on_public_restroom.JPG
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/185087
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/643702
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_sport_car.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sad_Cone_Puppy.jpg
STATS
2008-2009
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_286.asp
2013-2014
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.30.asp
1980s
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_325.35.asp
Women in Silicon Valley:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-state-of-women-in-technology-15-data-points-you-should-know/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BxbEifUr1z6HwY2_IcExQwUpKPRZY3FZ4x4ZFzZU-5E/edit?_ga=1.253789704.1241381290.1393376634#gid=0
SFX
wind wheeze dragon
swoosh mark diangelo
chomp
typing fast
pops
buzzing-electric
water chortle
PLANNED ASSETS
X MASK 594-1152
X stereotypes - silhouette hacking
X questionable hygiene - odor emanating
X girl ask out not go well: silhouette couple sequence
X sallie disturbed
X trekkers/trekkies debate
X polled coders, true stereotypes - a few of the hackers
X programmers vs women - silhouettes (hacker vs sexy)
X puppies cute (sad depressed puppy)
X Ada Lovelace
X Grace Hopper
? txt: bug/debug
X ENIAC ladies in heels
X Stats Alert
X school icon
X txt: (data sheet) 2008-2009 57% US undergrad degrees to women
X txt: (later that sheet) FF>> to 2013-2014
X txt: (earlier that sheet) 38% in the 1980s
X US Bachelor's Degrees 2008-2009
All 685,382 915,986 1,601,368 57.2%
Math/Stats 8,793 6,703 15,496 43.3%
Physical Sci 13,151 9,002 22,153 40.6%
Comp/Info 31,215 6,779 37,994 17.8%
X US Bachelor's Degrees 2013-2014
All 801,692 1,068,122 1,869,814 57.1%
Comp/Info 45,393 9,974 55,367 18%
Math/Stats 11,967 9,013 20,980 43%
Physical Sci 17,533 11,275 28,808 39.1%
X US Bachelor's Degrees 1983-1984
Comp/Info 20,416 12,023 32,439 37.1%
X say what you will about the 80s eighties fashion
X chartreuse pink purple
X workforce factory icon
X txt: workforce 20%
X Silicon Valley - circuit img
X txt: Silicon Valley 12%
X Game Development controller
X txt: 2009-2014 n -> 2n, n=11.5%
X Sallie daughter - Why more girls not like code
X Update loop
X cube for dance (rotate) and colors change (color balance)
X hunch sitting at desk punching numbers
X txt: marketing numbers in spreadsheet
X txt: marketing numbers in bubbles instead
X MASK 6541-7014
X Monty Hall Problem - game show sequence
X my code: walked step by step 100,000 times
X Monty Hall problem - solution tree / trying to decide
X answer a question - question mark and question guy
X binary-bg for that's what code does
X self-driving car
X robots breeding humans
X txt: password png
X Update loop
X sad depressed puppy
THE DISAPPEARING FEMALE DEVELOPER?
Programmers are easy to stereotype. They sit around in their hoody all hunch backed, questionable hygiene, they spoke to a girl - once - it didn't go well. Yeah, Sally's still creeped out about that... you need to APOLOGIZE! They take a serious position in the trekkers vs trekkies debate. They know what the trekkers vs trekkies debate is.
We went out and polled a bunch of coders and, turns out, these stereotypes are all true. Every one of them. Totally true. (Haha, no.)
But one stereotype in particular keeps this lady coder up at night. There are two kinds of people: there are programmers and then there are women.
[intro]
Welcome to CompChomp, the only place on the internets where code is cuter than puppies. Aww, I changed my mind.
Coding is actually a field with a history of key women figures. Ada Lovelace - the first computer programmer. Not the first female programmer, literally the first programmer. Grace Hopper, who created the first compiler. (Those are kind of important in programming. They're actually a big deal.) Oh and she’s the one to thank for the terms “bug” and “debug”. The ladies of ENIAC, who moved 80 tons of hardware in heels. (I can barely walk in heels.) But notice something? Nothing going on here since Russia started shaving its leaders.
Now it’s a field where the percentage of women just struggles to keep up.
STATS ALERT! Woowooh! These are my stats glasses. When the glasses come out, you know the stats are gonna be good.
From 2008 to 2009, 57% of US undergraduate degrees went to women. They earned 42% of the degrees in math and 40% of the degrees in physical sciences, but only 18% of computer science degrees. Fast forward to 2013-2014. Do things get better? The same really... except in computer science, where the womens dropped to 13%. Oh yeah, and that was down from a high of 38% in the 80s. Say what you will about the 80s, but they gave us female developers and taught us that chartreuse, purple and pink go together.
It's not much better in the workforce - something like 20% women. Unless you’re watching this from Silicon Valley, where women fill only 12% of those glitzy startup dev jobs. (Hey, we like pingpong, too!) [techrepublic]
On a positive note, there's game development, where from 2009 to 2014 the percentage of women doubled. Amazing! Until you realize that doubling meant rising from 1 in 10 to 1 out of every 5, on par with the rest of the dev world. [IGDA 2014]
These stats are depressing. (That's a lot of numbers.) I'm taking my glasses off. Look, at the end of the day, what I want to know is why more girls like me aren't coding.
So, maybe code isn't interesting? Oh, really? See this? This is an Update() loop I wrote for a game. This part makes a cube dance around while his color changes to the music. You can make colorful dancing cubes till the cows come home! Then you, too, can learn that most colors are some shade of brown! (I really thought it would be rainbows! So many rainbows!)
Don't think it's something girls do? I hear you. A couple years ago, I was sitting at my desk punching numbers into a spreadsheet optimizing those ROIs. (That's return on investment.) But now I write stuff that turns those numbers into floating bubbles.
Is code weird and unlearnable? Well, I started taking online classes for fun, and that was alright. But it really started to make sense when I found a question I wanted to answer: the Monty Hall problem. A game show where you choose either to switch doors or stick with your original door. I walked a computer through it step by step, 100,000 times. I still don't get it, but I can assure you it's just better to switch doors. (Don't ask. Just do it!) This was the first code I ever wrote totally on my own. I just wanted to answer a question.
And that's what code does. It isn’t about guys or girls. It’s about your world, a world that is becoming codier and codier: self-driving cars, robots breeding humans, passwords that aren't even words anymore, the wacky stuff that happens while your favorite video game runs Update() 60 frames per second. Or, for some reason, 30 frames a second. (Hide your frame-locking shame!)
You can do this. Girl. You can do this. Guy. You can do this. Sad depressed puppy. Okay, no, you can’t do this. But you can sit next to me while I do this! There are lots of problems to solve and jobs to fill. Whoever you are, wherever you are, your world is made of code. Maybe, if you step up, that’ll be one less disappearing female developer.
Now get out there and code. Chomp!