The Queen of Code

 First of all, I agree her story should be more widespread in the computer science field, I had heard her name before as the mother of COBOL, but she was only fleetingly mentioned. Her contributions to the field are enormous ones as it allowed the field to become more widespread and therefore reach more people and change how we do things. I agree with the statement that her life and contributions should be taught like Turing and other important figures of the field are taught. It was a nice documentary about her, and she seemed like a really interesting person. A short one, but it manages to capture your attention during every moment. It is really nice that Grace Hopper was recognized and you can see that she was proud of what she accomplished and that the women talking during the documentary really had an admiration for her.

Without compilers and higher level languages, programming would be a much more difficult task, I remember when we had to program in assembly language and even a simple sorter was a difficult task. I could not imagine that programming would be so widespread or that we would have reached the actual level of the field without her contribution. She fulfilled her goal of making computers and programming more accessible to everyone, although she could not change the field from the male dominated field it became, it is an effort that its still ongoing to bring more women to computer science and engineering in general. Her story and the stories of other prominent female figures in the field could attract women to the field, but I believe that it may also be important to change the boys club culture that exists within the industry. So that women are not repelled from the field and so that they can reach higher positions within the industry.

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