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C0wbox
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It has come to my attension that the vast majority of programmers seem to be men. I just thought of a random query, I wonder if there are female programmers. So, I'm posting here to find out.

Do you exist?

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I code, therefor I am?
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Yes i do.

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Ok, just in case there's some ambiguity - I am female, and I code. It's not what I do for a living, but a hobby.
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Kenjar
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It's true, I've not met many female programmers. I think I've met a total of 2 in my whole life, one of which is Tinkergirl.

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Another one of these threads again?


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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:59 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 21:00
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Quote: "Another one of these threads again? "

by the second or third page this thread will be about dating advice for some of our socially impotent forum members...it always happens.

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With a difference now that C0wbox goes straight to prison for mentioning such things without disclosing his real name Hmmm. Amusing smiley ascii there (look it up).

And just do a search. There must be dozens of duplicate posts here. Normally you pick up 2 or 3 (maybe, you can never really tell) here. If they aren't too scared by the geeks. And if they do respond then they will then be scared away from the dozens of posts that *always* follows a (supposed again) bird post on a thread like these. You can almost count the daisy chains and hearts in the air (from the forementioned ubergeek blokes) chasing after the fleeing fairer of the sexes.

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omg! dazzag is a girl!?

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was it is avatar that clued you off?

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This isn't a dating site!

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 22:26
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Quote: "This isn't a dating site!"

agreed, lock please.


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no one was discussing dating, just some people making predictions about how the thread will turn out. lets ee if we can have this thread stay on topic and not get locked.

I knew a couple of female coders in my time, one where I used to work.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 22:48 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 22:48
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Call me at 1-800-HOTKITTY.


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I wish I knew of some at my school. It' lonely at the top...but the view isn't bad.

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Of course there are female programmers. It's a bit of a dumb question really. 5-6 billion people in the world, roughly half are women. Do you really think not one of them is a programmer?

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Quote: "i know a girl who wanted me to show her some coding, she's gettin alright at it"


Men in dresses dont count....
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Quote: "Quote: "i know a girl who wanted me to show her some coding, she's gettin alright at it"

Men in dresses dont count...."


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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 00:04 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 00:05
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Where I work, we have about 200 IT People. About 80 of them are females, including our CIO. Here's what the female's do where I work:

10-15 Programmers
20 Business Analysts
10 Project Managers
2 Data Modelers
10 Desktop Support
10 Server Support
10 Supervisors, Managers
1 CIO

As far as our 10-15 female programmers, they program COBOL, Java, PowerBuilder, Lotus Notes and Visual Basic.
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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 00:32 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 00:32
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There are quite a few female programmers that I know of from work, too. The one who was on my team is very intelligent, and does her work quite a bit faster than the others. It's always nice to know that men aren't the only geeks around

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Philip
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Yes, but the worrying thing about this kind of thread is that it is probably some poor nerd trying to find himself a GF via the internet.

Tinkergirl, beware.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 01:09 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 01:09
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This is without a doubt the corniest method of trying to meet girls online that I've ever seen. I'm with Philip on this one.

Quote: "Call me at 1-800-HOTKITTY."

UGH, the last thing we need is Megaton to get his own phone sex hotline "Are you lonely? Need a petting? Megaton has the purrrfect solution for your tail. So call 1-800-hotkitty right meow baby."


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*laughs!!!* Oh dear - that would be tragic, wouldn't it. Many thanks for your concern, Philip, it is appreciated. However, any sad case pathetic enough to think he could pick up coder-girls on a website like this really should try getting out more.
For one, if you're a coder girl, you've been around geek guys long enough to see something like that a mile off, and two - who says they don't already have a nice coder-boy of their own ;D
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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 01:40 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 01:46
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Quote: "who says they don't already have a nice coder-boy of their own ;D"


*hastily cancels flower delivery to Tinkergirl*

Quote: "UGH, the last thing we need is Megaton to get his own phone sex hotline "Are you lonely? Need a petting? Megaton has the purrrfect solution for your tail. So call 1-800-hotkitty right meow baby.""


You'll be surprised...rawr.


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The first programmer was a girl, Grace Hopper.



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Ewwww. Andddd with that one picture, there goes my hopes and dreams.

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not one of these threads again.


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Quote: "Call me at 1-800-HOTKITTY."


Too many numbers. Maybe it could be 1-800-HOTMEOW, I'll try that number next.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 06:53
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Quote: "The first programmer was a girl, Grace Hopper."


Actually some would say it was Ada Lovelace:



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...who?

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Quote: "Actually some would say it was Ada Lovelace:"

Curses, how could I forget the Analytical Engine? My mistake, first electronic computer programmer then.


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I'm experiencing some social impotency... Is there any female coders on this forum who would be willing to give some dating advice? XD

Im not good enough at any language to make one of those code jokes with sexual inuendo, so I'll just leave that alone.

I know a lady at the shaolin place i go to who takes tai chi and is a coder for HP. shes probably a bit old for the age im guessing you are (seeing as you did actually post this)

I think females sometimes look at things alot more different than men, therefor bringing about new ideas to the table. And coding is all about making things work more efficiently.

Anywho i have to say i didnt know dazzag and TDP were girls >,>... sorry...

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They arent

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Quote: "Anywho i have to say i didnt know dazzag and TDP were girls >,>... sorry..."


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well dang what did you want me to say.

"Oh hi do you happen to be a girl?"

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Quote: "Yes, but the worrying thing about this kind of thread is that it is probably some poor nerd trying to find himself a GF via the internet."

I decided that after seeing the topic title :p

Quote: "[quote]Quote: "The first programmer was a girl, Grace Hopper."

Actually some would say it was Ada Lovelace:"

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That would be because it is :p you dont need a completed machine to program on it!!

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Some of my favorite programming profs are females.

*shout outs go to Ms. Shirley, Ms. Nats, and Ms. Ethel!*

They're working on some Natural Language Processing project right now - funded by the government ^_^

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There seems to be a fraction of women in high-end IT positions compared to the numbers studying the stuff. My class was about 60-40 men to women split, yet I've yet to meet a professional woman IT anything!.

My boss's daughter worked with me one summer, showed her some cool tricks in excel with VBA, and she was certainly smart enough to understand it all - she's studying for a degree in astro physics and her dad owns a MEMS/microchip company, hmmmmmm really can't see VBA coding as her choice of career.

Some people maintain that there's lots of women in the industry professionally, but not in programming, they're far more likely to be in artwork departments, texturing, modelling, sound, etc. I think mens brains are better geared for coding, as sexist as that sounds - remember men use the logic side of their brain more, and don't do crazy things like try to use both halves of our brain at once. No offence to all the 1337 coder-women here.

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there have been a few girl coders on this site, I think i'm to blame for the 75% of them that left... who here remembers randi??

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Yeah, Randi was cool, but nowadays she prefers to paint watercolor - see what I mean!, why can't these women devote decades of their lives to this stuff like we do!. I don't think it was just your crazy antics that made her want to leave Wigget, she got a strange reaction from everyone here .

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Quote: "I don't think it was just your crazy antics that made her want to leave Wigget"


Actually, I think it's the main reason many women leave Wigget.


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I dated a geek girl about 3 xgfs back. English (isle of wight) girl with a knack for unix and databases, she ended up with a job at a company who does military back end work.

Theres one prominent graphical artist geekgirl at the current work where im at.
She used to own a website company but gave it up for the pixel.

We used to have another coder girl here with her boyfriend in the darkbasic classic days.
the samurai on an island demo was pretty impressive, shame it yielded nothing of a full game, but it was very impressive.

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There was Traci and Multi, I think one of them became mojomagic with their artist boyfriend, after years of slow development in other platforms their website is sadly dead. The concept work on the site was awesome, shame it's gone.

Well it would be sad if they were actually doing anything still - those demo's are great examples of the ambitions folk had in DBClassic, personally I think if they held on for DBPro they would have gotten a lot further.

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lol i do recall being blamed for it though, and i didn't even say anything..

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never met a girl coder, though i know of one who lives just down the road from me, named tinkergirl (frappr told me so, dont worry im not stalking you )

i do however know a few girl gamer, that good enough?

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If I was then I would be fondling myself all day I mean more obviously...

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Quote: "who says they don't already have a nice coder-boy of their own"
Don't do it! Walk into the light and don't look back. To test them then just mention something slightly inaccurate about Star Trek. They just cannot help it. Sad really. Walk away... BTW, it's an obvious infection that just keeps growing as can be seen by my even mentioning Star Trek. Don't worry I'll kill myself before I move onto liking Enterprise

Think it's been spelled out pretty well on this version of the thread, but essentially grow up and try stalking people in the sunshine

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Quote: "i do however know a few girl gamer, that good enough?
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What? Where? I have never in the entirety of my somewhat short existance ever met a woman who enjoyed playing even a board game.
Well there was my sister who's a heck of a mean warthog driver, but she doesnt count: does she? I personally have met very few girls who know even the basics of a word processor. Why is that?

EDIT: But to get back to the topic why does it matter?

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Lets not forget Darkgirl (iirc). She and Raven were making an IDE at one point, then she quit on him.

very smart girl that one

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Quote: "Anywho i have to say i didnt know dazzag and TDP were girls >,>... sorry...
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Sorry boys, im lesbian.

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