For some reason, I read your post in Sterling Archer's voice.
Okay, sure. It starts with the title. "How to teach your girlfriend programming" immediately tells women that this article isn't for her; it's for her boyfriend, so he can teach her. The rest of the article regularly…
"Teach your girlfriend to program" is obviously meant to be interpreted as "teach your non-programming partner to program" ^ That is exactly what I'm talking about. It may be obvious to you, but from my perspective it's…
Well, this happened to be my first comment; not a throwaway account. I was attempting to be fair to the author, assuming his best intentions. A strawman on my part would have been to assume the worst intentions of the…
It's heavily implied in the language of the article. Chances are you're right, and if we asked the author of the article, he might say that: yeah, it works both ways, and this is just his experience. The problem is that…
For some reason, I read your post in Sterling Archer's voice.
Okay, sure. It starts with the title. "How to teach your girlfriend programming" immediately tells women that this article isn't for her; it's for her boyfriend, so he can teach her. The rest of the article regularly…
"Teach your girlfriend to program" is obviously meant to be interpreted as "teach your non-programming partner to program" ^ That is exactly what I'm talking about. It may be obvious to you, but from my perspective it's…
Well, this happened to be my first comment; not a throwaway account. I was attempting to be fair to the author, assuming his best intentions. A strawman on my part would have been to assume the worst intentions of the…
It's heavily implied in the language of the article. Chances are you're right, and if we asked the author of the article, he might say that: yeah, it works both ways, and this is just his experience. The problem is that…