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Tp when DIT eagys dc th ape show ose prconstrcted DH syste to deliver uation, Yet humanities stents ca surly be ofr te same oppoctaty that ws opens Seymour pest, uing Lago (pet (980), and Alan Kay, sing Sma (Kay and ‘They 200), sector to ire At dying the humanities and the at can ale be allowed to lear programming “he ce for programing cducaton woud not be a strong programming were mort nomena, it vee nothing more han completing a ed estab Tied pln, tn advocating that mans and ass shoul! progam, 1 consis ‘Coloatry peogumming, which iavolves wing computation 5a way of knqig Soe and eonsractily thinking abot important ses Those who deci to become new programmes often find the motivation to do se sn har counter with computes a Interacting with oters who ate wing PO ‘jamming hn stout interesting problens. They often have carte and pesona safe engaging with computing, ard do no eed 0 cons he sro MES than pavent ete The dbcssion hee mght, howe, help humanities and asst ths beter aaa thet Interest im progam flow stents and to facalty member. ‘Oe humanist wh hasaocated fr programming ction recesty—Dosh in i tng ant by teaching stadents to engage wits programs Inhumans set athe Kishen. He argues "Competes should not beac boxes but ahs aesenteod engine tr crating pomeal and peruse models ofthe wri around ithe woud sownd us nd inside we sometbiag we in the humanities ave beet Tree fora very lng ting, Ebi tha, ncrasngy, an apprectation of how (Gone ess canbe agin ad expres asa st of formal procedres—rue eet gnu in the tual spc of «compute wlan eset element ct ‘humanities education” (esehenbum 2008). iathrdoun is one of several umanists who ive aendy Been toching pe ramming to unergeadat ae rte dens n diferent conten Hhave tnt paring tnt tice mater students MT and media ses masters eriadts students at the New School, and have MIT undergraduates dong com nat wetng projets in “The Word Mid Dig” and “Ineactive Naat” Try coment and older course webpage re ike rom Ipck.com as ia true” tap vm sedne orp) at Brown and RSD. 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Progamming can Rip them com Sider the questions they eae about in new Wy wire tht fs been done about wheter programming improves cogsitlan ts tesent on young ert who ae il developing engi, not tent Habe education, Neves, o provide some Insight nto te eet of comput Fhogenming ofr ne esis rom the iterate on wheter karl 0 proms ‘ralp people ofthat ge roup improve cognition. Moding Humanist and Atti Process sa Wy oF Thinking fuwrd elim in Lot Rack 2000-1857, projected a character more thin fur jen nt the fe to expla the authors utoplan von of soc ‘mma Dou Bags wot aout How computation could augment human neat nme oes scene ional mode. Wing inthe vic of nypothetat vaste human, Eagelbt explains ore than Aify yes ago why poole wg epute ae tns even f they were sng the advanced chology tate ext Sone) shoul understand computes programing TEED Su rat op ego ang isn at ie Yoon ete tt he al ‘dope ng 205, 2-58) guar resents one way of undextanding he computer metaphorically, a» wth thao tht als people bald hing Nong ble to progam abn fo not Beng an change dal tA pason cause 8 woshop in sich ekcumtanes Be te in wat she can bud, Ante way of understanding the computer 1 8 = sarntony If people an tc the equpmnent that there, but are sable to change Theaprtentl setup they at ied in what experiments they can do Seeing Be np ihe wap a means tstngcoeie ot He ery epee ss 8 cat inks Mo a tonne faye Sh amet mas seein nes sete dane by compute! 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Howeve, sagged thatthe secon ae crarpeopttelangunge was important, since programing ection with Lag serzees eters (av and bight 1981, 262 Lago was not wed xls cass esy pogrmming tothe 1970s and 198s, bu spect that we wis ‘tpancay cele ih an exploratory progammig approach, wi wa Fao Sermons Pope's nal vison fr he ngage, So 11d thes res as onset serena not seal demonstrating) the value of exploratory programming Ths toe hat thee a 12 tis, and the insrctlon proved was most tant eter hited toning abot programming Ise cto dong math. 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