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Beth Andres-Beck
Personal blog · blog.bethcodes.comprogrammingcareer
Beth Andres-Beck's personal blog at blog.bethcodes.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Is Reading the Internet Convincing Women Not To Study Computer Science?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog for data on women's interest in computer science, including absolute numbers that differ from a relative-numbers chart, and for links to studies on gender disparities in CS classes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Code, Craft and Curiosity
Most-linked posts?
- Is Reading the Internet Convincing Women Not To Study Computer Science?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-19
- Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-18
- Code Review Heuristic: Work You Throw Away2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
What Hacker News says?
That chart shows relative numbers. A chart which shows absolute numbers tells a somewhat different story: http://blog.bethcodes.com/is-the-internet-convincing-women-n... Women’s interest in comp sci has experienced two booms and is otherwise somewhat stable.
Comment linking /is-the-internet-convincing-women-not-to-study
on “Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men”Submitted Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor as a story · 118 points
HN discussionCitations provided: http://blog.bethcodes.com/is-the-internet-convincing-women-n... The includes links to studies (like Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers & Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835, ISSN 0360-1315,) that show a "lack of ambient belonging", tha…
Comment linking /is-the-internet-convincing-women-not-to-study
on “Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)”Submitted The Dyslexic Programmer as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dyslexic Programmer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Reading the Internet Convincing Women Not To Study Computer Science? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Architecture Is Aesthetic Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Review Heuristic: Work You Throw Away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Delightful Code Reviews, Say Nice Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Review Heuristic: Work You Throw Away (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to use services like objects as a story · 1 points
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