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I may just be a science fiction geek, but I really wanted to see more of the "weaponizing of female sexuality" (as Flora put it so awesomely earlier), because that was actually the most interesting part to me.

But to ramble, I was actually pretty interested in the NYT article.

“They think of it as programming,”

But computer science, starting out, IS programming, and programming still isn't taught (in my experience) in a very helpful manner, and people still view it as the bastion of individuals who are primarily self-taught. Even at Bryn Mawr, I took a comp sci course-- the intro level, I believe-- and it was just... java. I couldn't make heads or tails of it, but if there's computer troubles, I can pretty much guarantee you that I can fix it. So what does this say about computer science vs. computer literacy? There's so much more to computing than coding, but that's where we have to start even if you want to learn web design or networking. Once again, we're back to this ridiculous gate keeper business.

I know they addressed that, but I wanted to share my own frustration because we do the same thing here at our school!

And there's absolutely nothing about hardware until you get past the java, but I feel that knowing the hardware is more important than anything else.

Dr. Stone sure as heck didn't create her automatons using java.