Change over Time & Histories of Computing

In-Class Agenda (Zoom Class)

• Discuss solution to Instructor’s Command Line Maze.
• Explore digital libraries and archives. You can find the link to the digital libraries page here.
• Discuss the assigned readings.
• Introduction to git and GitHub.

Assigned Materials

• Ding, Jennifer, Jan Diehm, and Michelle McGhee. “Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image.” The Pudding, October 2021. https://pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna.
• Section 2 Libraries and Database, Milligan, Ian. “The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age.” Cambridge Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026055.
• Milic, Louis T. “The Next Step.” Computers and the Humanities 1, no. 1 (1966): 3–6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30199191.

Additional Materials

• Mcpherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?: Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, NED-New edition., 139–60. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv8hq.12.

Assignments

• Complete the Command Line Maze Homework Exercises. If you get stuck, reach out to the Instructors on Slack.