Should Everyone Code?

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I learnt that the best way to learn coding is applying it to something that matters to you. For me, I took this opportunity to create my own resume using HTML codes after watching the tutorials, it was an addicting and fun experience.

Hence, Should Everyone Code?

The discourse divide is not between the humanities and the computer sciences, but equally much between every subfield therein. Learning to program should be no more and no less enabling than reading Derrida. 

Donahue, Evan. “A ‘Hello World’ Apart (Why Humanities Students Should NOT Learn to Program).” HASTAC, HASTAC, 28 May 2010,

That should not be the question asked, nevertheless no I don’t think everyone should code. I think anyone can code but they need not to.

I like this quote from Donahue in which she says it’s not about pitching CS against the Humanities – it’s about the difference in the subfields of each field. I don’t think humanities-based professions should need to know how to code, as much as it is needed in the modern age of technology that we live in today.

It’s more about collaboration and I’m confident to say all fields overlap in one way or another, and CS and the Humanities are no different. Even if there are overlaps, doesn’t mean one subfield of a subject is “needed” in another field.

It doesn’t mean coding is needed, we as humans create the need, and if we say we don’t need it, a feedback loop will likely make sure that we don’t need it. If we start saying and acting and relying on coding, well, it will set the precedent for future attitude towards the Humanities in such a way that coding becomes necessary.

 I clearly don't see the point of this debate. After all, everything is a choice. As a collective, we either choose to make coding a necessity which I honestly support, but we do not "have" to.

I was a Humanities-based student throughout high school and when I came to college, I decided to take Computer Science. I look forward to combining them both in the most organic way possible, and I think Digital Humanities will help me get there.