Lest we forget that some the brightest and smartest programmers before the korean War took place (in the U.S. only) were female. In fact, some of the best minds in the computer and digital industry (Atomic / Nuclear / Programming / Security / Software Engineering / Hardware architecture) were women, in different capacities. I would like to get back to this point.

Sometimes it's about the skills and not the education, gender, sex, or status of what a person has. I've met a lot of smart women in my life but they were skilled at something that I was not. Higher math, high-level programming, hardware, analytics, and logic. Nowadays, it's easy to get some of those skills online. It's not about sexism or racism, now. It's about the technological divide between those who have the desire for the skill set and between those who do not.

Err, I hoping I'm making sense. Please, at least give me the benefit of an ignorant doubt. Thanks!

I usually try to learn the basic concepts on my own but it does require some type of logic , basic math, or standard class on computers to actually understand loops, integers, and adders. And to understand compiling, that deserves more than one semester. Don't give up! I'm sure there are people here that would love to continue to encourage you at /v/programming.