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Why is Kathy and Bert's Programmer a female?

 
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Has anyone noticed this . In the SCJP 5 Book the programmer evidently is referred to as her always. So much for women power .

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In their "Heads First EJB" book, they actually have pictures of the various collaborators ... bean developer, assembler, deployer, sys admin. Their use of "he" and "she" then follows the pictures. It's actually pretty helpful for remembering which role does what.
 
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but in SCJP 5 its all she. and i dont have any complaints, i am just amused. Did Kathy force Bert to use she or he gave in. Maybe this will lighten up more females to pick up programming as career and sparkle our dull programming jobs.

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This thread and topic is a waste of time for this excellent resource and its fine administrators.
 
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) Lighten up Higgledy
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we do lots of stuff to try to help memory, seems like this idea is working!
 
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Originally posted by Abhishek Misra:
) Lighten up Higgledy

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I'm not tense. Who said I was tense?
 
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Originally posted by Higgledy Smith:


I'm not tense. Who said I was tense?



So how is your preparation coming up. When are u scheduled to take you exam. I have seen a lot of question from you on this forum so i hope you are taking the exam sometime soon.
 
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OK, you guys can knock it off now, Or I'll start calling you both "she"s

I like this thread. I think it is a great observation and one that I wanted to know the answer to.

Mark
 
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Thanks Mark!! But Bert evaded the question. I guess it's good for guys to memorise specially with the programmer being female but Bert tell us why is our programmer a female..
 
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One thing that helps memory is to include unexpected details or twists. Using "she" to refer to a programmer is (unfortunately) unexpected, and tells your mind that the text is "interesting."
 
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what Marc said...

We were recently at a conference, and everyone had to describe their work in 3 words. I said "brain friendly learning". It turns out that if you read one of our books you're part of our experiments in "brain friendly learning". In the Head First books we have the opportunity to talk about what we think "brain friendly" means, and we get to try a bunch of different techniques. With the K&B book we're pretty restricted from a format perspective, so we use whatever techniques we can fit into that book format.

The key word here is "experiment"! We think we might have taken a step or two, but the concept of "brain friendly learning" is huge, and we're just at the beginning.

We believe that it's possible to make learning easier, and one of our focii (?) is making a distinction between the mind and the brain. One of our theories is that while a learner's mind might be VERY interested in learning a topic like Java, the same learner's brain and brain chemistry is actively trying NOT to learn Java. The brain doesn't think Java is life threatening. So we are working on ways to get brains engaged while learning technical topics (we assume most of our reader's minds are already interested ).

so...what Marc said (only for us it's about the brain, not the mind)
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
...(only for us it's about the brain, not the mind)


Yes, that makes sense.

I didn't think it would be my style at first, but now I'm totally sold on the Head First approach. In fact, I just ordered two more Head First books last night (Servlets and HTML).
 
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Yup i think head first is an amazing example of how easy learning can be made. I have read thinking in java and its also one of the amazing books but kathy and bert make the head first enjoyable.
Kudos to you guys. Thanks for making our lives easier .
 
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Another book, which I really enjoyed reading is the Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. Very well written book. Concise and to the point.
 
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