{"id":63,"date":"2009-06-11T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-10-30T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T09:32:38","slug":"about-70-sets-of-opinions-on-computing-from-women-in-one-animated-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"About 70 sets of opinions on computing, from women, in one animated gif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our upcoming ITiCSE talk (<a href=\"http:\/\/db.grinnell.edu\/sigcse\/iticse2009\/Program\/viewAcceptedSession.asp?sessionID=50801\">details and paper download here<\/a>) we asked a bunch of women computer scientists a load of questions. At the end of the questionnaire we asked &#8220;What&#8217;s the best bit about computing?&#8221;, and &#8220;What&#8217;s the worst bit about computing?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve collated all the answers to these questions and turned it into an animated gif, shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/animation.gif\" alt=\"best bits of computing and worst bits of computing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love the way that some things come out both best and worst (and it&#8217;s fascinating how many times &#8220;programming&#8221; comes up in both categories).<\/p>\n<p>Because I am a proper geek, I made the gif by writing a hacky perl program. So if you have a unix system with ImageMagick convert and perl installed, you can make your own animation from a comma-separated list of statements using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/do_anim.pl\">this perl hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our upcoming ITiCSE talk (details and paper download here) we asked a bunch of women computer scientists a load of questions. At the end of the questionnaire we asked &#8220;What&#8217;s the best bit about computing?&#8221;, and &#8220;What&#8217;s the worst bit about computing?&#8221;. I&#8217;ve collated all the answers to these questions and turned it into an animated gif, shown below: I love the way that some things come out both best and worst (and it&#8217;s fascinating how many times &#8220;programming&#8221; comes up in both categories). Because I am a proper geek, I made the gif by writing a hacky perl program. So if you have<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=63\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}