Women in Computer Science

In 1984 Steve Levy the legendary technology journalist published his book Hackers the Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Jane says you can see the effect of these movies and books in her work at Carnegie Mellon she found that half the women who went to school for computer science ended up quitting the program dropping out just like Patti did. To give girls a chance to make up for what they missed in those years when boys were messing around with computers and their bedrooms Carnegie Mellon added an intro course for students who didn't have a lot of informal computer science experience.