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pronoun usage: think like a cs refers to programmer as he #1984

Closed morey-ow closed 2 years ago

morey-ow commented 2 years ago

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What is your username morey-ow Describe the bug Not sure if this is appropriate venue to report this as it isn't exactly a bug, but I was disappointed to see that 'programmer' was referred to by the pronoun he in Think Like a Computer Scientist, section 20.6 I've boxed about half of the instances in the included image.

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bnmnetp commented 2 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out. It is something we can certainly do a better job of watching out for both in the original content and in contributions from our instructors. (as is the case with this particular chapter)

Ignoring the front matter I just did a count of the usage of he vs she and they are approximately equal. Although this would be easy to rewrite using gender neutral terms.

Feel free to submit a PR with corrections.

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