Reason for the idea that "When you turn 2 you should learn coding"

ByTom Carmony

Daime Stephanie Shirley, an entrepreneur who established a women's software company in the UK in the 1960s and made 70 employees into billionaire, said children, especially girls, puzzles and problems I showed the idea of ​​learning how to solve it.

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Mr. Shirley is a person who founded a women's software company in the UK in the 1960's, eventually grown into a $ 3 billion company and made 70 colleagues a billionaire. When writing business development letters to overcome obstacles of women, he gave a name of "Steve", and at home instead of a company he said that a female employee had made a flight recorder program in a supersonic passenger plane Concorde black box about. Female occupied employees of the company as it was necessary to hire male employees to comply with the sex discrimination prevention law enacted in 1975.

The accomplishments Mr. Shirley paid are spoken in the following movies.

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Mr. Shirley, a pioneer of an information technology company in the UK, thinks that young children, especially girls, should burn their passion for "problem solving" such as puzzles before the "geeky boy" stereotype settles I will.

Mr. Shirley's thinking "The time suitable for introducing coding activities to children" is 2-7 years old, but he also says that "It is not too early". "Many of the great success coders since then have started around the age of 5 to 6. In a sense, modern is the best time to learn anything, and programming is geeky and narrative It should not be thought that it is there. "

UK academic completion certification "A levelAs a result of investigation, it was confirmed that only 9.8% of the girls who completed the course of computing were August 17, 2017It was reported to the BBC. This is a problem in primary education in the UK and investigation of the cause is required to solve the problem that female students leave a challenging work requiring digital skills. Mr. Shirley's remarks were based on this report.

Meanwhile, it seems that technology companies are increasingly hiring women because of the fact that only 20% of women are included in Google engineers and founder of men is doubled as a founder of female founder Mr. Shirley is also asking for efforts.

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In addition, within GoogleThe event that the document "Women are not suitable for coding" circulatedPointed out that "a" very macho "culture that excludes women as a result of failed efforts towards gender gap has been born to some technology companies", and programmers point out that such as photographs and names He also stated that it should be evaluated only by technology without giving information. The lack of diversity in technology companies is also reflected in the product, and it also refers to "Apple Watch does not manage the menstrual cycle even if you control heart rate".