This question is interesting because as we progress in technology there are fewer women and minorities graduating college with computer science degrees. Personally, I find that it makes computer science look like it is only for men when that is not true. Since I am a computer engineering major I have noticed that there are not a lot of computer science majors that are women or minorities. Instead it is mostly populated by white males. I think that the reason for this is people think only smart people or nerds can do that major. This is completely false. And I say that because even though I am majoring in that related field I believe that anyone can become a computer scientist if they tried their best to do so because the only way to become better at anything is practice.

In a radio broadcast by NPR talking about Obamas state of the union address and how he said that he wanted to give students the opportunity to get a hands on experience of computer science classes, Eric Westervelt of the Ed team went to find out what that would actually look like. In the article, it said that the problem with computer science is that since it is new a lot of today's educators where not exposed to it as much as people are today. The other problem is that when students are being taught is to take the joyful part seriously. Getting involved deeply inside of a project and having trouble and then overcoming that obstacle is the most exciting time for a computer scientist. One other problem with computer science is diversity. To avoid that problem seven of the nation's largest school districts are trying their best to expand access to computer science classes.

In another broadcast by NPR they bring on Steve Henn who has been studying why the percentage of women in computer science decreased after 1984 and Patty Ordonez who attended John Hopkins in 1984 for computer science. The main argument about the article was that during the time when home computer where first coming out they were targeted towards boys. There was an advertisement for a computer called the commodore 64 and in the ad there was one girl who was jumping into a pool and several men using the machine. Also, in the mid-90s Carnegie Mellon had one of the best Computer Science programs that was 93 percent male. The major values associated with this article are that computer science is a heavily dominated field of mostly men and that advertisements especially in the 80s are targeted more towards boys than girls. Patty Ordonez experienced this first hand when she dropped out of the program for John Hopkins and then went back ten years later and now has a Ph.D in the field. 

In another broadcast by Steve Henn it is about getting women to work in Computer science and how schools are getting them to class. The main idea behind the article is that math unlike computer science is taught every year to students in high school so when they come to college they will be prepared for what is next. Unlike computer science, were some kids can have little experience or no experience so they are not prepared for the courses yet to come. Maria Klawe who is a mathematician and computer scientist and president of Harvey Mudd College created two classes for computer science majors. One that was for students with little or no experience with coding and those who have self-taught themselves. This change made a big difference on the department and has been adopted by 15 schools around the country including Carnegie Mellon. 

This research question is arguable because there are issues that have led to or have lead computer science to be primarily dominated by males such as advertising computers and associating computer science with "nerds". This can lead to an argument about how maybe more tech companies think women cannot code and instead try to hire more males. The sources provide excellent statistics of women and minorities who are represented in computer science. These sources made me realize that not only does the United States have a very low access to computer science classes but a majority of the people who take them are mostly white male students. From the information gathered maybe a more appropriate question would be "How to expand computer science programs to women and minorities in the United States".

