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To: Tell It Right

My experience is only as my time in school.
I took College Algebra, Trig, Pre Calc, Calc I II III, Diff Eq, & Linear Algebra.
100% white students. NE Florida area.

Then, there’s the application of Math in other classes.
Stoichiometry, Dynamics, Statics, Laminar flow models, Electromagnetics, etc.


43 posted on 02/20/2024 11:00:25 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
I'm in my 50's and got a BS in computer science in Sweet Home Alabama. I had to take up to Cal 2 (starting in Trig 1 in college because of the math placement test). Virtually everybody in my math courses were white males and some Asians. My freshmen CS courses had some mixture for the first couple of courses, but many folks changed majors. By my senior courses about 75% were white male, one white female, two black males (one of which I worked with for a while and he's smart with a good work ethic), 0 black females, 0 Hispanic males or females, and almost everybody else from Asian countries.

And that's pretty much what my programmer coworkers have looked like. When we talk about how we got into IT, some of us talk about starting it as a hobby as teenagers programming Trash 80's or C-64's (I'm showing my age LOL). Almost everybody who talks about it gives credit to having a father in his life.

45 posted on 02/20/2024 11:12:01 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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