Comments on: [berkman] Diana Kimball: Coding as a Liberal Art

By: Jay Cross » 195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross » 195 posts about MOOCs — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:23:18 +0000

[...] [berkman] Diana Kimball: Coding as a Liberal Art [...]

By: John Dougan

John Dougan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:57:08 +0000

Sounds lot like RPG’s proposal for an MFA program in software:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html

ISTR that they did some test runs of the concept, not sure how successful.

By: On learning new things

On learning new things — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:00:49 +0000

[...] week, my friend Diana gave a Berkman Center talk on Coding as a Liberal Art. She’s been chronicling her experience learning how to code, and in her talk, she offers up [...]

By: 100 Things I’m Learning at Journalism Interactive 2013: A Somewhat Live Blog « College Media Matters

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:43:21 +0000

[...] Apparently, coding is a liberal art. Click here to see a live blog of the presentation that explained this [...]

By: Yada Yada pour la Yada

Yada Yada pour la Yada — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:18:33 +0000

[...] code is a writing process. I will not argue against that. But, to do some further research, I found that the woman who said this may have a more capitalist reason for speaking. “Coding [...]

By: MSW

MSW — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:56:41 +0000

Very interesting material– I am totally not interested in coding, and was indeed dragged into using a computer about thirty years ago kicking and screaming by my husband and brother-in-law– but, as the years have passed, I’ve picked up a lot of odds ‘n ends of technological skills: I now have made and keep three websites, and I can go into the html and correct mistakes if not actually write it. I use CSS and just love being able to change colors on whim. I use Gimp for images. I can now do desktop publishing (I’m a writer) and make book covers and digital e-books. One thing led to another. I’ve been having a grand old time.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:45:15 +0000

As a professional programmer for many many years, I must sadly disagree with this view. Coding is a *trade*. And it is not for liberal arts people, unless they tend to the pedantic, such as grammarians and proofreaders. If a liberal arts person wants to do something to broaden her experiences, learn elementary plumbing instead – being able to unclog a drain is more useful in practice. See the article:

“Please Don’t Learn To Code”
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html