Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry) / quote 5 of 16
Should humanities scholars be also fluent in code?
The necessity for executable code creates new requirements for digital literacy. Not every scholar in the digital humanities needs to be an expert programmer, but to produce high quality work, they certainly need to know how to talk to those who are programmers. The digital humanities scholar is apt to think along two parallel tracks at once: what the surface display should be, and what kinds of executable code are necessary to bring it about. This puts subtle pressure on the writing process, which in turn also interacts with the coding. [...] Willard McCarty (2009) extrapolates from this development a future in which humanities scholars are also fluent in code and can ‘actually make things’. Once critical mass is achieved, developments at any one place have catalysing effects on the field as a whole. Intimately related to institutionalisation