Hello World

Amazing achievement to have a film to make a difference in the world. Most non tech folk won't know but Shawn is one of the best teachers in the world in the e-learning space, literally taught thousands if not millions. Many software developers have been learning using Shawns courses for decades, and these courses are almost self made. So not only do you have to be an engineer, an editor a story teller too. Well done Shawn you've broken that engineer stereotype and become a master of the profession and a master of story telling and now making movies. Just shows with the right mind concentration anything is possible.

This documentary tells it like it is. Brings into the light some examples of discrimination. Hope it helps us move to a better, more equal place.

Hello World (2020) is a movie about programmers and why there are skewed demographics. According to the film, since the early 1980's there was a negative change in the numbers of jobs for certain programmers (females/minorities) due to biased societal choices. Other reasons for the decline not mentioned was the mass introduction of the "inexpensive" IBM PC, collapse of the LISP machine/workstation market, outsourcing, the first video game collapse, and the 1983 recession that devastated the market for programmers. Programmers during this time quickly went from diverse Ivy League suit and tie academics operating mainframes to the hoodie wearing, geek sleeping on the couch, startup entrepreneurs with PCs. This was more likely the main cause of the demographic drop rather than certain major demographics elbowing out other certain minor demographics to grab some "brass ring". Because programming was no longer as secure a career path for women and minorities, they went to other more stable engineering disciplines that did not decline after the mid 1980's. Some of the graphs in the movie show this exodus if you pause and study them. If you look at the employment numbers for other engineering fields, besides programming, you do not see this employment decline for women since the 1980's as shown in the film. Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and look up programmer's employment prospects for all programmers over the same time period to see official information not offered by the film. Other than the cherry picked statistics, it is a decent film on programming and programmers.