The world now revolves around digital technology in countless different forms. There are academic and professional careers that specialize in various aspects of technological mastery–some examples being software development, computer science, engineering, or cybersecurity. However, it’s important that everyone has at least a basic understanding of the development and foundations of the technologies that constitute daily life. Therefore I believe even humanities students should be taking a class about coding and/or digital skills. I don’t at all think they have to be experts though, just having a basic understanding would be beneficial.
Increasingly, though, texts take the form of worlds as much as words. […] Virtual worlds will be to the new century what cinema was to the last one and the novel to the century before that.
Matt Kirschenbaum, Hello Worlds: Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program
The world has continued to shift through technological advances. Acquiring education and literacy skills is a requirement in this country for any youth in standardized schooling, but it wasn’t always this way. The more advanced the US became the more crucial it was to have been taught a basis of literacy so that everyone could function in society. Should the same thinking not be applied here, as we see technology being integrated more and more into every aspect of life?
As for my personal coding experience, I’ve mainly worked with R, but also have learned some Python. I find coding to be pretty fascinating, largely because I think it’s super satisfying to see new visualizations, programs, websites, or other creations appearing from a bunch of user commands to the computer. I enjoyed going through the HTML Dog tutorials.
Here is my raw code sample:
<html>
<body>
<h1> Output: </h1>
<br>
<p> This is a fun fact about myself </p>
<a href = "#Fun Fact" style= "color: blue;">Go to Fun Fact </a>
<br>
<br>
<h2 id = "Fun Fact"> Fun Fact </h2>
<p> I went to 3 years of high school in an old Macy's department store building </p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
This is a fun fact about myself:
Go to Fun FactFun Fact
I went to high school in an old Macy’s department store building
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Ian, I really appreciated your insight in how as technology develops, so must educational curriculums. I absolutely agree that we must adjust to technological advances, and that does include education, potentially in other levels of schooling as well. Your interactive code was also fun to see!