… Proficiency in a computer language can fulfill many of the same functions — accessibility, self-reliance, heightened critical awareness — as knowledge of a traditional foreign language.
Hello Worlds (why humanities students should learn to program)
Digital Humanities students should learn to code not only because it will be very helpful to know or at least be familiar with in an age where technology is becoming ever more prevalent, but also since coding can help contribute to one’s general intellect an acumen such as, as Kirschenbaum puts it, knowing another language can.
Before this lab, I had no prior knowledge or experience with coding in any way shape or form, I can barely type correctly for that matter, yet HTML Dog was very insightful and comprehensive in the way it explained the base concepts of HTML and CSS, which were the two tutorials I went through.
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I also really liked how the blog post by Kirschenbaum related coding to language; languages are huge in humanities studies, and the idea that coding languages provide the same benefits to intellectual spaces as formal languages is not acknowledged enough.
I thought you made a really compelling point about why humanities students should learn to code by arguing that learning code benefits students not only because of its real-world applicability in today’s society, but because it benefits students in the same way that learning a language does.