Lab Post (W2) – Julian Tanguma

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I believe that digital humanities (DH) students should have a background in programming. I do not believe they need the background, specifically, to complete their work, but a degree of understanding in coding could help to elevate their work. One example of an elevation could be that coding could make their work more accessible to online viewers, and even have something like a text-to-speech function. This quote from Kischenbaum’s for argument that “many of us in the humanities miss the extent to which programming is a creative and generative activity.” Kischenbaum’s argument here is really what I want to get at when I mean Humanities students should learn a bit of code because it can be extremely creative and can make some work gain a new level of depth. Although I have decent experience in coding, a CS major that basically studies programming languages, the HTML tutorial actually helped me build on my already established coding experience. And many people could profit from this kind of training, not just DH students. For example, I knew what HTML was, but I never really studied it too deeply, so coding in this new way really helped open my eyes to different possibilities.

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