[zozbot234]

> Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually. This is a request to make the curriculum easier and does not appear to be related to inclusion.

Out of all the suggestions that were made, this is the one that's perhaps most relevant to inclusion and getting more women to code, actually. It's well-known that women are on average more social than men, more open to working with people than things, and less approving of solitary activities like being a traditional lone "rockstar coder".

[phkahler]

>> It's well-known that women are on average more social than men, more open to working with people than things, and less approving of solitary activities like being a traditional lone "rockstar coder".

And yet if this professor used a statement like that as an explanation for why fewer women code than men, he would suffer the consequences, name calling, and firing.

[wayoutthere]

Furthermore, the lone "rockstar coder" is an antipattern. Very little development is done in a vacuum, and the best developers I know -- male or female -- are the ones who can bring other people along with them in technical discussions.

[seanmcdirmid]

It isn’t exactly an anti pattern, just rare; eg with Notch and Minecraft. Lone coders can create great masterpieces, but it is a very different kind of artifact than what a group could produce. Don’t count loners out from being productive members of society in any field.

Of course, most work requires a lot more collaboration, and CS departments could do more to help train up those skills.