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The Semicolon Wars

5 years ago a friend of mine gave me a book as a birthday gift. Yes, as you may guess, it was a programming book, and if I got to be specific, an introduction to C programming language. A 17 year old José Pablo felt like he had some kind of magical book in his hands. My first thought was that this book would contain a step-by-step guide to build my first app. I was wrong. After reading some pages of the magical book all of my fantasy dreams went straight to the trash. But hey, not all of it was bad. I realized that the C language was similar to the way math equations are written. Having said that, let's start talking about The Semicolon Wars. After reading a 5 page magazine article, that felt more like a typical meal-time debate from a group of programmers, I realized that most of the ideas presented have gone through my mind a lot of times. The differences between most of the programming languages are not that much. Most of them share a way of writing operations and instructi...

70/30

Don't worry, today we are not going to talk about finances or economics as the title may suggest. We will treat a more important subject to us computer scientists. But first, let's do a quick test. If you happen to be, or you know some coders, what's the percentage from women and men? Your answer may be different, but the most probable is theres a male majority in the group. Yeah, I know, we even joke about having more than 5 women in our classes, but if you really take some time to deeply analyze and make some research about this topic, you'll find that this actually increasing year-by-year instead of going down. At the beginning of what Computer Science is now, many women took part of this big movement. The trend was that women would take more relevance, and well, that actually happened until the mid-1980s. Stanford University CS BSc by gender 10 years earlier, a study the numbers of men and women who expressed an interest in coding as a career were equal. Ma...

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