The History of Women in Programming
summary
History argues that women wrote the first programs and built early computing practice: Ada Lovelace authors the first program, WWII teams operate ENIAC as human computers, Grace Hopper produces the first compiler and helps create COBOL so that by the late 1990s 80% of all code was COBOL. University fixes that drop female enrollment from 7% to 42% at Carnegie Mellon, and community efforts like Rails Girls and targeted grants measurably increase women applicants.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10History
- 8:45Grace Hopper
- 14:42The 1950s
- 15:28The 1960s
- 18:10The 1970s
- 20:35The 1980s
- 24:19The 1990s
- 26:41The 2000s
- 27:54The Present
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