I personally believe that humanities students do not need to learn how to code. I disagree with the notion that Evan Donahue thinks humanities students should not learn to program merely that it is not a requirement. He in fact suggests that every person should try programming but disagrees with how Kirschenbaum’s work may be perceived. As Donahue states:
“Thus, students should learn to program, but they should not let their inability to program prevent them from engaging with the computer sciences.”.
I think that everyone should try programming, but if someone does not enjoy learning programming or doing it then I do not believe that should mean they cannot be a humanities scholar. I think that because of the tools we have gained from programming it is no longer a necessity to learn it. We have tools now that simplify the process with different software and automation where a humanities student would no longer need to know how to create it themselves.
In my own life I do have some experience programming, I know quite a bit of C#, a little bit of Java and a smidge of python however I will admit I know absolutely nothing about web development. I really enjoy coding for the same reason I like puzzles. I like to figure things out and learn how they work. For the tutorials I did the CSS beginner tutorial and the HTML beginner tutorial. I found the HTML tutorial to be a little confusingly worded but after I got what they were saying I found it pretty easy with one exception. It seems that for some reason WordPress does not like inputs in HTML. They would work in the edit menu of the post but when published or the page refreshed they would disappear.
Below here is HTML code I wrote in order to display a similar style to the paragraphs above. This displays my point of how things done through HTML programming can also now be done with editors and programs, however, if you enjoy writing code and understand it then it can be more customizable. It is not, however, necessary for a humanities scholar.
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I
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personally
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believe that humanities students do not need to learn how to code. I disagree with the notion that
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220516075231/https://www.hastac.org/blogs/evan-donahue/2010/05/28/hello-world-apart-why-humanities-students-should-not-learn-program"> <b>Evan Doahue</b></a>
thinks humanities students should not learn to program merely that it is not a requirement. He in fact suggests that every person should try programming but disagrees with how
<a href="https://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/hello-worlds/"> link <b>Kirschenbaum's</b></a>
work may be perceived. As <b>Donahue</b>states:
<p style="color: pink;">"Thus, students should learn to program, but they should not let their inability to program prevent them from engaging with the computer sciences".</p>
I think that everyone should try programming but if someone does not enjoy learning it or doing it then I do not believe that should mean they cannot be a humanities scholar. I think that because of the tools we have gained from programming it is no longer a necessity to learn it. We have tools now that simplify the process with different software and automation where a humanities student would no longer need to know how to create it themselves.
</p>I personally believe that humanities students do not need to learn how to code. I disagree with the notion that Evan Doahue thinks humanities students should not learn to program merely that it is not a requirement. He in fact suggests that every person should try programming but disagrees with how Kirschenbaum’s work may be perceived. As Donahue states:
“Thus, students should learn to program, but they should not let their inability to program prevent them from engaging with the computer sciences”.
I think that everyone should try programming but if someone does not enjoy learning it or doing it then I do not believe that should mean they cannot be a humanities scholar. I think that because of the tools we have gained from programming it is no longer a necessity to learn it. We have tools now that simplify the process with different software and automation where a humanities student would no longer need to know how to create it themselves.
