But that’s not to say that the ‘geek’ is any less innocent at putting off women from getting into tech than the ‘brogrammer’. The geek that burns with an intense passion for computers and technology is incredibly intimidating – it’s easy for young girls and women to see this and then disregard their own lack of passion as not good enough for the industry.
But the thing is you don’t need this intense passion for code and programming – code is all right, I’ve learnt enough of it to get to where I am today, but it’s a long way from being my passion. My passion is the things you can do with the code – the end result, the code itself is just a means towards an end.