Personally speaking, students who learn humanities still need to learn code. Coding is a compelling method for people to explain or visualize social problems to the general public. For instance, when analyzing historical data of the ancient household-registration system, Python is a really powerful and efficient way to filter data and extract meaningful data. Also, coding provides another aspect of understanding humanities: by understanding the principles of web crawlers, the ethical boundaries of platform data collection can be revealed.
Computers should not be black boxes but rather understood as engines for creating powerful and persuasive models of the world around us.
https://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/hello-worlds/
I am a math student, so I approached coding before in high school. I think it is a really powerful skills in evert subjects, since it can specify many abstract ideas and provide more interesting experience like interactive graphs. I learned Python before, and it provided me some support when I learning JavaScript. But I never had any experience with CSS and HTML. I found it is really difficult to learn a completely new computer language by myself without any tutorial, since I cannot understand the meaning of the signs in this language and do not know the basic logic of it. Hence, I chose to learn these CSS and HTML beginner tutorials. They help me have a fundamental understanding of how to use these codes, but I still can only write really basic code. There is an example:
<h1>Digital Humanities</h1>
<p>This text contains 3 words and 19 characters.</p>
<button onclick="alert('Words: 3, Characters: 19')">Analyze Text</button>
As you can see, in the example, I can use code to analyze the words, which may be a really helpful skill in the Humanities(although this example is so simple). We can make the abstract words into visualization projects. For humanities scholars, such simple coding skills transform how they can work with textual evidence – moving from subjective reading to data-supported analysis.
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Your reflection shows a connection between math, coding, and the humanities. I really appreciate how you engage with both the possibilities and the struggles—like learning HTML/CSS without guidance. That honesty makes your insights more valuable. I like your example, it demonstrates the potential of coding in humanities work. Your point about moving from subjective reading to data-supported analysis feels especially important and worth further exploration.
Your reflection shows a connection between math, coding, and the humanities. I really appreciate how you engage with both the possibilities and the struggles—like learning HTML/CSS without guidance. That honesty makes your insights more valuable. I like your example, it demonstrates the potential of coding in humanities work. Your point about moving from subjective reading to data-supported analysis feels especially important and worth further exploration.