Coding Literacy Vee Annette Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh
Coding Literacy Vee Annette Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The…
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Coding Literacy Vee Annette Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh
How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. 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.
Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Computer programming