Rather than focus on getting women and minorities hired at tech startups or encouraging them to major in computer science in college, there should be a push to turn them on to the discipline when they're still teenagers—or even younger.
Most movements and organizations dedicated to advancing minorities in CS have largely focused on the former.
While starting off younger does have advantages (although your skills might stagnate at a certain point where a person who started later has just caught up with you), I'm not familiar with any push to do so.
There's a push to introduce compulsory coding classes, but that's distinct.
Unsurprisingly, the article's only source to this claim is PG's out-of-context statement that already got beaten until it was a carcass.
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Rather than focus on getting women and minorities hired at tech startups or encouraging them to major in computer science in college, there should be a push to turn them on to the discipline when they're still teenagers—or even younger.
Most movements and organizations dedicated to advancing minorities in CS have largely focused on the former.
While starting off younger does have advantages (although your skills might stagnate at a certain point where a person who started later has just caught up with you), I'm not familiar with any push to do so.
There's a push to introduce compulsory coding classes, but that's distinct.
Unsurprisingly, the article's only source to this claim is PG's out-of-context statement that already got beaten until it was a carcass.