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Why Aren't There A Lot of Transgender CS Students?

IsraelW — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:52:04 +0000

Lack of Scholarships

We all know that college is scary and expensive. To pay for college we have to apply to scholarships and sometimes take out student loans. As a non-binary person, I looked specifically for scholarships for LGBTQ+ students, but I didn't find a lot of them. Even after applying to other scholarships, I still am in need of a student loan and that's a terrifying thought. The lack of scholarships for transgender and genderqueer students makes it hard for them to pay for college, which results in many of them not entering the field.

Lack of Inclusive Options

Colleges have male dorms and female dorms. Where does a trans person fit in? A trans woman would like to sleep in the female dorm, but there are always the people who will make an issue about that. The dorms at most, if not all colleges, are split into only two genders and that leaves out room for trans and non-binary people.

Computer Science Is Still Male-Dominated

Women have struggled to break into the computer science industry for decades, despite having been the earliest computer programmers. The male-dominated computer science field has a hard time accepting women, and an even harder time accept genderqueer people. This causes many trans and non-binary people from leaving the field due to the rejection they face as computer science students.

Luckily I came across the Transgender First scholarship. This is a scholarship for trans and non-binary people to help them get through college. You can find them at their website here.

Find Whatever Python Snippets You Need With Quick Snippets

IsraelW — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:29:06 +0000

Overview of My Submission

I used Python with Flask for the backend and PyMongo to connect to MongoDB Atlas. Quick Snippets is a website that allows you to find whatever snippets you need.

Submission Category:

This was a choose your own adventure project and let me say, it was a fun adventure!

Link to Code

mordy-python / Quick-Snippets-Hackathon

Repository for quick-snippets website

Quick Snippets

This is the repo for the dev.to MongoDB Hackathon.

Visit it here: quick-snippets.com

View on GitHub

Additional Resources / Info

Visit the website here: https://quick-snippets.herokuapp.com

pallets / flask

The Python micro framework for building web applications.

Screenshots

Home Page

New Snippet Page

IndiePoetry is now live!

IsraelW — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:57:35 +0000

I created a website called IndiePoetry that enables writers to share their poems! I'll gladly take improvement ideas. :)
Visit the site at https://indiepoetry.herokuapp.com/

Tech Stack

It was written on replit.com in Flask and Python.
It's hosted on Heroku.
The database I used is deta.sh.

To contribute or file an issue:

mordy-python / IndiePoetry

IndiePoetry

The brand-new way to share your poems 😎

https://indiepoetry.herokuapp.com/

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I made my first blog post

IsraelW — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:04:30 +0000

Hey everyone! I started a blog called Mordy's Tech Snippets and today I posted my first article there, it's about customizing your bash prompt and I would love feedback! Feel free to ask anything in the comments! You can read it below, but head over to check my blog out!

How to customize your Bash Prompt Part 1

If you're a developer there's a big chance that you're familiar with the terminal. The terminal's used for:

Git
- git push
- git pull
- git commit
Running code
- python main.py
- gcc/g++ main.cpp
Editing files
- nano ~/.bashrc

You get the idea; the terminal's a big part of a developer's day, and today, I'm going to show you how to customize it.
If you want to make temporary changes, you can set the PS1 environment variable for only that session; for permanent changes, you can edit the PS1 variable in your ~/.bashrc file. My terminal currently looks like this.

My prompt has:

Date
Time
User@Host
Current directory enclosed in angle brackets
The git master branch name in parentheses

My background color theme is from this GitHub repo, but the prompt I customized myself.

Ok, on to the prompt

The prompt string in your ~/.bashrc will start with ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}, but we can ignore that. If you've never customized the prompt, it will look like PS1=" \u@\h:\w$" these are escape sequences that tell bash what to put in the prompt.

What the escape sequences mean:

\u means the logged-in user's username
\h is the hostname of the computer
\w is the current working directory

so "\u@\h:\w $" becomes username@computername:workingdir$. To add the date, time, customize the working dir, and add colors, we need to add more escape sequences.

The escape sequence for the date is \ d' the date format will beDay of week Month Day`

After using \ d', my prompt looks likeThu Jun 24 jwald@Momo-pc:~/blog$`

There are three different escape sequences for time.

\T
- This escape sequence will show the time in H:M:S format with the hour in 12-hour format
\t
- This escape sequence will show the time in H:M:S format with the hour in 24-hour format
\@
- This escape sequence will show the time in H:M format along with AM or PM; the hour is in 12-hour format

I picked the \@ escape sequence, so now my prompt is Thu Jun 24 12:53 jwald@Momo-pc:~/blog$, and the prompt string is PS1=" \d \@ \u@\h:\w$"

My terminal looks like this now

The file path doesn't look that amazing. It seems a little cramped, so let's customize that. I'm going to add angle brackets < and > around the current directory path. Remember that \w is the working directory, so I'm going to change my prompt string to look like this PS1=" \d \@ \u@\h:<\w>$". Now it looks like this. I'm going to remove the colon, the dollar sign and add some spacing to make it look better. With the formatting added, my string is PS1= "\d \@ \u@\h <\w>" and the prompt looks much better. In the next post, I will show you how to colorize your prompt and make it look even better.

Mordy

Happy pride month programmers!

IsraelW — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:18:25 +0000

It's that time of year again! Pride month! This is my first pride month really realizing that I'm part of the community as a Non-Binary/Genderfluid human. I'm really happy with all the support and love from online communities, especially when my fam isn't very supportive 😪. My pronouns are she/her, they/them, and thank you all for being amazing!