There is no way known that the tone of these comments would be so negative if the name at the top of the list was, say, John Guttag rather than Ana Bell.
Top comment "Her recommendations are poor." Really? I call bullshit on that. I say it's a fine list put together by someone who teaches the most prominent course on introductory programming with the reasoning behind each of the choices. My list would be different. So would yours. That's the point. (Top comment calling "poor" couldn't come up with 5 books!) But hey, it's a woman so out come the idiots being wildly critical in ways they would not be other than they seem to be unaware of how confronted they are by a, gasp, woman. Wooo... "No I'm smarter, no really, really I am, let me prooooove it." FFS Bro, deep breath.
Top comment "Her recommendations are poor." Really? I call bullshit on that. I say it's a fine list put together by someone who teaches the most prominent course on introductory programming with the reasoning behind each of the choices. My list would be different. So would yours. That's the point. (Top comment calling "poor" couldn't come up with 5 books!) But hey, it's a woman so out come the idiots being wildly critical in ways they would not be other than they seem to be unaware of how confronted they are by a, gasp, woman. Wooo... "No I'm smarter, no really, really I am, let me prooooove it." FFS Bro, deep breath.