CS at a LAC or Women's College

Snowball_City
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:29:57 +0000

Yes, math, math, math.

My daughter and a couple of friends took CS at the high school level. The teacher was thrilled and let the girls work collaboratively - actually anyone could work collaboratively but the boys all wanted to work alone. Each girl wrote their own code but they talked through ideas for how to approach different problems.

The collaborative motif has been her experience as a STEM major at a women’s college. Organic chemistry was not taught as a weed-out course. The had study groups and they all wanted each other to succeed. They worked hard but they were not competing against each other.

My other daughter took programming at Harvey Mudd and really enjoyed it. She had high math skills but the teaching was excellent.