Coding in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is using technology to further communication and make history more accessible to research and learn. Coding involves learning and typing script to modify a website and customize functions. While in my DH 390 course, I have been learning to code in HTML and CSS; simply coding basic introductions and customizing HTML to understand all the tools available to me. Coding is important to learn as a digital humanist because it provides good base work to understanding technology and teaches how to make a website cleaner and understandable.
“Programming is about choices and constraints, and about how you choose to model some select slice of the world around you in the formal environment of a computer” (Kirschenbaum).
While creating my HTML and CSS website, it was very similar to R programming, which I have basic experience in. I had a fairly easy time adjusting in HTML and enjoyed the customization in CSS. I think without the provided PowerPoint resources I would have had a very hard time finding the script for little details like bold word, italicize, and color.
Citations
“Hello Worlds (Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program).” Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, 26 May 2010, mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/hello-worlds/.
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