I do believe that humanities students should learn to code. I honestly think that it would make them more marketable to certain companies once they graduate and are looking for a job because not many people know coding or even understand it; however, if they were required to take a course on it people could possibly understand it and maybe even like it. It would also allow many people to be more proficient because as stated above not many people understand coding and having that show up on your college transcripts could possibly put you at the front of the line for your next job, promotion, etc. When I first signed for a class that dealt with coding, I couldn’t stop thinking about how am I going to understand and apply this some day, but now that I’m actually understand coding and like it even a little bit I think that it puts me at a greater position to further my education and helps me stand out to employers.
It will also affect academics especially because people are becoming more technologically advanced and I feel that coding will lost likely be one of this future concepts that people either understand or they don’t. I think you’re more likely to be successful in the future if you do understand the concept of coding. “I believe such trends will eventually affect the minutiae of academic policy. The English department where I teach, like most which offer the doctorate, requires students to demonstrate proficiency in at least one foreign language (Kirschenbaum, para. 9).” I think this quote perfectly sums up how we as a society need to start understanding coding because it’s going to be a part of our future.
I had zero coding experience coming into this class and I was very interested to learn about it, but I honestly felt like I wouldn’t understand it at the end of the day. However, after actually trying to code, it was very fun. It was so cool to me that would could change the way words, colors, and a whole webpage look like just by putting a string of letters together, and I can honestly say coding may not be my favorite thing to do, but I do find it exciting and I like to do it for fun. I thought that my HTML and CSS went very well. I love the way the colors for the CSS turned out and I was pleasantly surprised I didn’t mess anything up too bad. I also thought that after the tutorial on HTML it went very smoothly. However, I haven’t been able to get the style.css page to link to my index.html when I try to put it under my skills assessment page.
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