Coding literacy : how computer programming is changing writing / Annette Vee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vee, Annette, author.

Series:

Software studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers and literacy.

Literacy--History.

Literacy.

Computer literacy.

Written communication--History.

Written communication.

History.

Programming languages (Electronic computers)--History.

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Rhetoric.

Computer programming--Study and teaching.

Computer programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. 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 couplig, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy.

Contents:

1 Coding for Everyone and the Legacy of Mass Literacy 43

2 Sociomaterialities of Programming and Writing 95

3 Material Infrastructures of Writing and Programming 139

4 Literacy for Everyday Life 179.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262340236

0262340232

9780262340243

0262340240

OCLC:

999606225

Publisher Number:

99973420893

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.