We all attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 conference recently, and hats off to the Anita Borg Institute for doing such a super job of running the conference — it was a phenomenal event. (I was general chair of the conference, so I might be biased!)
I had to speak several times during the event and during one set of remarks, for reasons I can’t really explain, I thought it would be entertaining to recite a list of computing words that begin with the letter “P”. Several people have written me since and asked me to repeat them, so I thought i would pass them along via blog. Here goes:
Programming
Parenthesis
Pipe
Pascal
Powerpoint
Pearl
PHP
Python
Process
Parameter
Pointer
Pop
Push
Port
Postscript
PPP
Printer
Procedure
Proxy
Protocol
Prototype
PDP-11
Portability
Precedence
Paging
Packet
Parallelism
Parity
Peer-to-Peer
PC
Peripheral
PDA
Password
Pixal
Prefix
Postfix
Polish notation
Processor
Ping
Printf
Punched card
Podcast
and last but not least …
Polymorphism.
What’s up with computer science and the letter “P”?
Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of NCWIT. Letter P appears courtesy of Flickr.
