<story><title>When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming </title><url>http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/</url><text>Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mekoka</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Avery Swartz, a mentor at another table, works as a freelance website designer. “A lot of my clients are women. They don’t necessarily want to work with a man because they are afraid of the intimidation factor, the tech speak, the ‘jargon’. I want women to feel empowered, to know that they can take an active role.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a gender problem, it&apos;s pedagogical. My granddad would be intimidated to learn to code for those exact same reasons. I assume that having a name like &lt;i&gt;Ladies Learning Code&lt;/i&gt; somewhat entices women to approach programming with the perspective that the pedagogy will be different. Playing on the notion that there&apos;s an alternative way to explain code to different gender might be a good marketing ploy, but I&apos;m wondering if it&apos;s not also doing a disservice by perpetuating the myth.</text></comment>
<story><title>When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming </title><url>http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/</url><text>Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prophetjohn</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;I left Ladies Learning Code having accomplished my goal. I built a WordPress.org&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does this actually mean? The sentence itself seems to indicate that the class was focused around learning to program by building a WordPress clone. My suspicion based on reading the whole article is that she took a class showing her how to use WordPress to create a blog. If she doesn&apos;t know the distinction, I&apos;m skeptical that she really learned to program in any meaningful way.&lt;p&gt;I do think it&apos;s great that people who are mostly technically illiterate are making efforts to change that, though.</text></comment>