Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing (Software Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026203624X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Annette Vee is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious.Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this coupling, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy. Just as societies demonstrated a "literate mentality" regardless of the literate status of individuals, Vee argues, a "computational mentality" is now emerging even though coding is still a specialized skill.. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of
Coding Literacy presents a social-material analysis of writing and coding/programming as constitutive of everyday life and its inequities. (Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London) . Readers across these disciplines will be energized to take up the responsibilities we have to help shape a better future together with coding literacy. A timely and engaging work, Vee's book is a conversation starter for colleagues across computer and engineering sciences, education, and humanities disciplines. (Ellen Cushman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion, Northeastern University; coeditor of Lite