Association for Women in Computing

The future is ours

Dear Women In Computer Science,

Unlike most people in computer science, I didn’t write my first line of code until my junior year.

I put so many efforts to catch up. It took me a while to understand what does “this” keyword actually refer to…

A Note

Dear fellow member of the fairer sex,

First of all, I would like to congratulate you for your guts to take up a field that is predominately occupied by males. My advice to you is, do not get intimidated by the people around you. If you don’t understand copy constructors, that’s okay. But…

When You Are Grown and in Charge

To the men who have asked me to be on their team at hackathons. To the men who sat next to me in class and struck up a conversation, and to those who have invited me to study sessions. To those who do not question my abilities because of my gender, my race.

Shark in the Water

To the lovely men in computer science,

I totally understand that some of you just don’t like socializing very much. I should probably expect that the seats next to me tend to be the last ones to be filled in a lecture hall; the awkward shuffle some of you do when you…