I never saw female coders, only males like those depicted in the movies War Games, Tron, Wierd Science, and The Last Starfighter. The closest I got to coding was when my father, an engineer, brought home used IBM punch cards and gave them to me to use in arts and crafts projects. I loved both of those courses, but never condered computer science as a career because in the 70's and 80's when I was growing up, coders were stereotypically male. At Cornell University, I took a Pascal course. At Shaker High School, in Latham NY, I learned BASIC. I had taken computer science classes in both high school and college. By the late 1990's I was working for myself, consulting with small companies to build Lotus Notes systems. My employers sent me to many classes to learn these skills, and I also taught myself. I started with Excel spreadsheets, then Paradox relational databases, and finally Lotus Notes workflow management systems (more relational databases) and SQL. These positions required lots of organization and tracking of projects, and I fell in love with coding and developing. Prior to teaching, I worked as an editorial assistant at a college level textbook publisher in Philadelphia and as a marketing assistant at Prudential Securities in New York City.
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