Blog – Page 2 – Hacking the Humanities

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 13, 2018 Alief

Humanities and Programming (and My Experience with Programming)

Should Humanists Learn How to Code? Yes. The birth of big data, the computer optimization under the Moore’s Law, and the expansion of the field of computer science have significantly advanced the academia world. In biology, the field I am most familiar with, for example, the modern sequencing platform has

January 13, 2018 trawalleym

Exploring the Mappa Mundi

THE MAPPA MUNDI For this assignment, I chose to explore the Mappa Mundi. For those who do not know what the Mappa Mundi is, the Mappa Mundi is a medieval European map of the world. The map contains thousands of inscriptions and drawings of medieval cities, towns, biblical events, animals,

January 13, 2018 Max Goldberg

Humanities Students and Programming

Humanities Students and Programming: Before the rise of empires in Europe, each small community had to fill the roles of feeding, healing, peacekeeping, teaching, parenting, and entertaining. But now, everything can be outsourced. White collar workers work long hours, and then they often outsource their cooking, lawn care, cleaning, and

January 12, 2018 trawalleym

Virtual Home

I made a 2D image of my current house. The process was kind of hard trying to figure it out by myself, but I was able to get a hang of how to use sketch-up. With the addition of the youtube tutorials, I was able to do most of the

January 12, 2018 tordic

Learning More About HTML/CSS

As someone who has experience using HMTL and CSS I found the more advanced tutorials very interesting. I enjoyed the learning more about the different types of input that are now available in HTML5. There are now specific input types for time, date, url, telephone, and email to name a

January 11, 2018 Saahithi

Learning about HTML and CSS

I enjoyed learning how to use HTML and CSS and the beginner tutorials made it a lot easier to figure out. It was good to refresh what we went over in class and learn a little more. I’ve used other word processing applications like R Markdown, which uses dollar signs

January 11, 2018 Conor G

My Introduction to Code-Based Web Design

This week I began to learn more about the front-end languages that serve as the part of websites and DH projects that users see. I was particularly excited because the HTML and CSS tutorials from HTML Dog were both foreign and familiar to me, as I have some experience with “drag-and-drop”

January 11, 2018 Alief

HTML/CSS Beginner Intro

I am new to both HTML and CSS. The beginner tutorials on HTML Dog helped me a lot to understand the basics of HTML and CSS, especially in such a short time. In this post, I will describe my experience learning HTML and CSS in under three hours. First, HTML.