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@ b i r g i t t a 4 1 0 BORN FOR IT? How the image of software developers came about A programmer is The computer boys take over Nathan Ensmenger, 2010 1940s The ENIAC girls

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BORN FOR IT?

How the image of software developers came about

@ b i r g i t t a 4 1 0

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A programmer is…

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“The computer boys take over” Nathan Ensmenger, 2010

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The ENIAC “girls”

1940s

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http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/78/2258

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Computers Operators Coders

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1950 1966 1968

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1962

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It was with some shock and dismay that he realized that “a good part of the

remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs”.

Maurice Wilkes, memoirs

Programming is hard

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Programming is error-prone

Mariner 1 1962

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“Magic” (“Black art”) “Programmers are born, not made” “When a programmer is good, he is very, very good. But when he is bad, he is horrid.”

(IBM, 1968)

View of programming in 50s/60s “Software crisis”

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1962: 80% of businesses used some form of aptitude test Half of them used IBM PAT 1967 alone: 700.000 individuals

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1966

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…are crazy about puzzles, …tend to like research applications and risk-taking, …dislike routine and regimentation, …don’t like people

Programmers…

1966

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1956: 700 programmers 700 = 3/5 of available programmers in US By 1961: 7000 more

SDC & the “SAGE” Project

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S u r p r i s e !

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Female Computer Science student

There are people who are born to do this, and I am not one of them. And it’s definitely not

ne of those things that, like, “Oh, with

practice, you will become one who is born to do it.” … You just gotta be born to be like, ‘Computers! Yeah! They are awesome!! They are my life!’ You know, a lot of computer scientists, that’s all they do.”

L a t e 9 s

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“Unlocking the Clubhouse” Jane Margolis / Allan Fisher 2002

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“I don’t live to program. I know guys who live to program, or at least they seem to. You find them on the weekends doing nothing but programming and I just think, ‘How can they do that?’ I guess I think I’m more balanced.” “I enjoy computer science, but it’s not my life.”

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Passion!

“I guess I think I’m more balanced…” “I enjoy this, but it’s not my life”

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“If we are using a single model to identify potential programmers, we will miss many potential students.”

Passion

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What is the “vocational interest scale” in OUR heads?

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medium.com/@ericajoy

“The other side of diversity” 2 s

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Don’t think the status quo is “just natural”

Bed sheets ad ALDI

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https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/stop-acting-so-surprised-how-microaggressions-enforce-stereotypes-in-tech

“Stop acting so surprised”

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Challenge your image of the “real programmer”

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martinfowler.com/articles/born-for-it.html @birgitta410

Sweepstakes at ThoughtWorks booth

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http://devslovebacon.com/ conferences/bacon-2013/talks/ bacon-is-bad-for-you

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“The computer boys take over” Nathan Ensmenger “Pioneer Programmer” Jean Jennings Bartik “Unlocking the Clubhouse” Jane Margolis / Allan Fisher

https://modelviewculture.com/ pieces/stop-acting-so-surprised- how-microaggressions-enforce- stereotypes-in-tech https://medium.com/this-is-hard/ the-other-side-of-diversity- 1bb3de2f053e

“Let IT go” Dame Stephanie Shirley