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Coding is for Girls: A Letter
For the Young Women Coding in Classes Filled with Boys
It’s the morning of your very first coding class. You excitedly step into the room, already brimming with ideas of games, apps, and programs. You’re confident, considerably intelligent, and prepared to succeed.
You look around your classroom to see what friends will be joining you. Suddenly, you notice that you stick out like a sore thumb. In a sea of young boys, you stand alone, the token representative of your gender.
Young coder, even if your class is disproportionate, remember that you are not alone. Heroes of code’s past and present are rooting for you. You can move mountains.
Coding is not, will not be, and was never just for men. Without the brilliance of women, without our perspectives and inventions, code would have never become what it is today:
The first-ever program was written by Ada Lovelace. She created an algorithm for a theoretical device and was the first to realize that computers could be used to calculate complex mathematical operations.
