RE: <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>

She's addressing the dearth of women in computing.  The blog entry
(linked below) is entitled "How to get women into computing."

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kamal Bhatt [mailto:kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:34 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>

M. David Peterson wrote:
>
> Can't help but agree 100%.  In addition, via Jeni Tennison @
> http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/30
>
> <quote>
> With that in mind, look at how Ruby on Rails is marketed. A big play
> is made of how easy it is. But if a language or framework is easy then

> people with low self-efficacy can't win: if they manage to do
> something with it then they haven't really achieved very much because
> anyone can do it; if they don't manage to do something with it then
> they're complete idiots. I'm not saying that we should advertise
> languages or frameworks as being hard, because obviously that can put
> people off as well, but a recognition of the barriers that people
> might face may, in a strange way, make them more approachable.
>
> This is also an issue for trainers: we need to be able to boost the
> self-efficacy of the people we train (particularly women) by setting
> them challenging (but achievable) tasks and not giving them too much
> help to achieve them.
> </quuote>
Why particularly women? Not that anyone outside of Jeni Tennison could
answer that.

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