modeling equal roles for mothers and fathers in the household
individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from individuals
society should decrease the use of the gender dichotomy
policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other
eliminate gender distinctions
gender neutrality in the law has changed the nature of custody disputes
public restrooms being available without distinguishing the gender of the person using them
Someone who identifies as gender blind takes the perspective of gender neutrality in every day life.
s/he, or they
in gender neutralism the emphasis is on transcending the perspective of gender altogether rather than focusing on the rights of specific genders
Gender neutrality emphasises the equal treatment of men and women legally with no discrimination whatsoever.
Gender neutrality or "gender transcendence" is part of the transhumanist concept of postgenderism
Advocates of postgenderism argue that the presence of gender roles, social stratification, and cogno-physical disparities and differences are generally to the detriment of individuals and society.
to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.
began as enhancements to C, first adding classes, then virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling among other features.
uses the structural conventions of a programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading.
augmented with natural language descriptions of the details, where convenient, or with compact mathematical notation.
The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier for humans to understand than conventional programming language code, and that it is a compact and environment-independent description of the key principles of an algorithm
commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications that are documenting various algorithms, and also in planning of computer program development, for sketching out the structure of the program before the actual coding takes place.
No standard for pseudocode syntax exists, as a program in pseudocode is not an executable program. Pseudocode resembles, but should not be confused with, skeleton programs including dummy code, which can be compiled without errors.
Flowcharts can be thought of as a graphical alternative to pseudocode.
<variable> = <expression>
IF <condition>
DO stuff;
ELSE
DO other stuff;
Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. They are:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more highly imaginative fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award
The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".