Week 2: How it Works (Front End) – Hacking the Humanities

January 15, 2018 trawalleym

HTML & CSS Tutorials

I have no prior experience with programming or any knowledge with computer science, so it was an interesting journey of learning the basics of HTML and CSS. Overall, I enjoyed learning the basics and was exciting when I saw the results of my tutorial. This will expand my knowledge of

January 14, 2018 lintone

On Coding, then Debate

This is where I talk mainly about the past then JavaScript While I wouldn’t say I’m an expert, I have been learning about coding and programming since my Senior year of high school, so I’m knowledgeable about it. Before this class, I did study CSS and HTML in a classroom

January 14, 2018 tordic

Humanities and Programming

Should Humanities Students Learn To Code? In a world where computers are becoming increasingly prevalent in our society and academia, it has become more important than ever for students and professionals to have some knowledge of programming and computers. With traditionally non-technological fields such as history and english moving

January 14, 2018 sanghia

My experience with JavaScript and my stance on the ongoing debate

My experience with JavaScript: I personally have a lot of experience with Java, so moving to JavaScript was extremely easy for me. I actually learned that JavaScript is much easier to use! Which is always nice to know. My Stance on whether Humanities students should learn to code: I believe

January 12, 2018 Max Goldberg

HTML/CSS Sign-up sheet

I have had very little experience with HTML and CSS in the past. For example, I have inspected and edited small pieces of websites before, but have never written from scratch. I found being able to construct a website on my own to be an amazing experience. I love how everything

January 12, 2018 Austin

JavaScript 101

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the modern responsive web, and almost all the pages you interact with online use it in some form or other. As with the other things we’re learning in this class, our aim is not to memorize every aspect of the language and become experts

January 12, 2018 schifferc

HTML & CSS

I really enjoyed going into HTML & CSS. I learned them a while ago and it was nice to get a reminded about classes and tags I don’t often use. Most people don’t realize how accessible it is to make a website. HTML & CSS were a start along a

January 11, 2018 sanghia

My experience with relearning HTML and CSS

I had learnt HTML and CSS for fun before, but that was a long time ago. Relearning everything was a rather pleasant experience as I had forgotten how versatile it was. It was fun to mess around with the buttons, checkboxes, and radio buttons. And using CSS showed me just

January 10, 2018 Austin

HTML/CSS 101

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the bedrock foundations on which the world wide web (and therefore most digital humanities projects) are based. HTML provides the basic structural markup that tells your browser what to do with the information on your page. CSS dresses up your plain content in fancy clothes, by adding

January 9, 2018 sanghia

Authorial London (Sanghi_A)

Authorial London is a DH project that compiles and maps references to London found within works by writers who lived there. It includes roughly 1,600 passages from 193 works written between the 14th and 20th centuries by 47 authors from 12 literary communities (periods). The site allows exploring and analyzing them