Reading-Notes

Reading Notes Class 314

• What occurred during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer science? The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers. These early personal computers weren’t much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing. And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

• Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up? This was a big deal when those kids got to college. As personal computers became more common, computer science professors increasingly assumed that their students had grown up playing with computers at home.

• When are diversity efforts most successful?
• Why do diverse companies perform better? They have may more perspectives and experiences that people can rely on and pull from when trying to come up with new ideas or even solve problems that people might come across.
• Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa. Well if there is a user that has a diability and you have you have developer that has the same disability they will be able to create a product that people with that disability or one similiar can use the product. Plus they are able to answer any questions or challenges that might come up during the whole process.

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