My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
That's not a call for single-sex education.  That's a call for good teachers who are willing to crack down on the class clown.  There's always a class clown, and he always needs to be cracked down upon for the good of the class.  This is teaching 101.  Sorry you didn't have a good teacher.<p>>Dave was really excited by the class, and, like me and the other volunteers, had a lot of experience with Python.<p>Sounds like Dave was in the wrong class and should have been told so.<p>>I wondered afterwards why this extremely competent woman in her 20s would react this way after clearly mastering the material.<p>That's a learned technique for getting assistance.  It worked on you, didn't it?