Two days ago, I signed myself and a co-worker up for team AS3. With only ten hours to go, I’m currently the only chick on the list.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve been programming since the ninth grade, or the fact that I’ve been a gainfully-employed programmer for about eight years. I still have major insecurities about being a female coder. It doesn’t help that the two languages I mostly deal with (ColdFusion and ActionScript) are laughed at by the rest of the programming world.
When I told my co-worker that we’d be going up against people using Ruby and C#, he laughed dismissively and said “Don’t worry, we’ll show them AS3 is a real language.” I admire his cockiness, but I wonder how much of it is based in naiveté.
Wish us luck!
