In this course’s introduction to coding, I had the opportunity to refresh my knowledge and abilities in programming. In high school I had the opportunity to take a computer programming class. A class in which we spent an entire term learning how to code using Java. My experience with the tutorials offered by HTML Dog […]
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Why I’m Taking CS111
The title goes a long way to describing my intentions with this post, I want to explain why it is I’m taking CS:111 Intro to Computer Science as a junior history major. As we’ve been discussing the relative merits of humanities students learning to code, I’ve been reflecting on my own choices this term, and […]
For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]
By the mid-20th century, the modern research university assumed its present form, with segmented humanities departments separated from the natural and social sciences as well as from vocational and professional schools. Digital work challenges many of these separations, promoting dialogue not only across established disciplinary lines but also across the pure/applied, qualitative/quantitative, and theoretical/practical divides. […]
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The Importance of Non-Makers
“…I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not […]
Along with many other scholars, we suggest that the migration of cultural materials into digital media is a process analogous to the flowering of Renaissance and post-Renaissance print culture. Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 4. In the early chapters of Burdick’s book, when the […]
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My Sketchup Adventure
This first assignment in the course involved us using the application Sketchup to create a basic 3D model of our house from where we grew up. At the beginning before we began playing around with the software, the task seemed daunting since designing a house is something that requires years of education and practice. However, […]
