Margolis found an apprenticeship-like pattern in which fathers often worked through BASIC and computer problems with sons while daughters rarely received equivalent attention.

Format Book / Offline paper

Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

"Margolis found an apprenticeship-like pattern in which fathers often worked through BASIC and computer problems with sons while daughters rarely received equivalent attention."

Thompson uses Margolis’s interviews to show how informal father-son computing mentorship compounded boys’ early technical experience.

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

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