Girls who CODE


I have been working in Software industry for about three years now. From the time I have been engaged in this industry, I have encountered men (no hard feelings) who discourages and thinks girls cannot be good developer(s). Is it??? Nahh not for me, for I believe that girls can be very good developers, I’ve met a lot of excellent female developers at work. Not denying the fact that guys can be technically more mature. But that does not make the girls less technical. They can be better specially when talking about the esthetics and User interfaces (UI).

Mostly a guy’s main focus / point of concentration is towards the logic / underlying business and not on UI. And this is what I call totally opposite from what a Client thinks and wants. Being a quality engineer, I have met clients whose first impression are set on the UI more rather than how it will be functioning. Well this topic can lead to a big discussion so I will zip it here, what I will be posting today is a very interesting article I came across today morning.

This post is dedicated to all the female(s) who wish to prosper their future in development. Girls who Code is a new organization formed by Reshma Saujani with the scope to educate, guide and equip young minds (girls) from IT and engineering fields wishing to pursue their career in the development field. For all the geeky girls out there join the organization and help them in supporting the good cause.

Appreciate your valuable views and comments, do share your views with me :)

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  1. UnknownJuly 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    Nicely written!

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  2. Zulqarnain MazharAugust 8, 2012 at 8:40 AM

    Its not always the girls, I have seen boys as well that are not able to code, according to me that completely depends upon the diversity of being in practice, understanding and importantly skill set of a particular, and its not only CODERS that are of high value in the field of IT :) I agree to your perception but development is not the only field

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