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Last active December 15, 2015 00:59 — forked from quisquous/gist:5167417
This revision is closer to what I wish I said, although I am sure that it is less true to what I actually told people while on stage.
How not to be scary (when introducing programming)
A transcribed lightning talk given by Lyla Fischer at the PyCon 2013 Education Summit
What are people scared of? The main thing that people are scared of is that
they don't belong. The rest of my talk is mainly going to center on this one
point.
I'm going to let you take 15 seconds to think of stereotypes of programmers. If