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I'd like to see that rate adjusted for people who were hobby programmers before they started. I suspect more boys than girls do programming before college, and that having done programming before college helps people not to drop out. I believe that the key to increasing diversity in tech is to increase the diversity in kids who are programming for fun. I have previously supported Black Girls Code for this reason.


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