Additional Resources

This book is a tutorial-style introduction to programming for practicing historians. We assume that you're starting out with no prior programming experience and only a basic understanding of computers. More experience, of course, won't hurt. Once you know how to program, you will find it relatively easy to learn new programming languages and techniques, and to apply what you know in unfamiliar situations. In order to get you to that point we've adopted the following strategy.

• Black, Chad
  • "Posts on DevonThink"
  • "Playing with Python"
• Boggs, Jeremy
  • "Participating in the Bazaar"
• Chudnov, Dan
  • "What Questions Do You Have about Learning Programming?"
  • "learn2code"
• Cohen, Dan
  • "Programming for Poets"
• Digital Humanities Questions and Answers
  • "What's Wrong with Python?"
  • "Jython Too Good to be True??"
• eM
  • "Programming Historian (partial, in Korean)"
• Forster, Chris
  • "Mining Obscenity III: Failure, with Visualizations"
• Graham, Shawn
  • "Practical Necromancy for Beginners"
  • "Behaviour Space", Digital Studies 1(2)
• HASTAC
  • "Critical Code Studies"
• Heppler, Jason
  • "How I Learned Code"
  • "The Rubyist Historian"
• Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.
  • "Hello Worlds (Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program)"
• Knox, Doug
  • "Genealogies of Old Newspapers"
• Meloni, Julie
  • "A Gentle Introduction to Version Control"
• MONK: Metadata Offer New Knowledge
  • "MONK"
• Quiroga, Nicolas
  • "Programming Historian en Español, parte I"
  • "Programming Historian en Español, parte II"
  • "Programming Historian en Español, parte III"
  • "Programming Historian en Español, parte IV"
  • "Programming Historian en Español, parte V"
• Ramsay, Stephen
  • "On Building"
• Sherratt, Tim
  • "Cloudy Biographies and Portrait Walls"
  • "Word Frequencies"
  • "Mining the Treasures of Trove (Part 1)"
• Sinclair, Stéfan and Geoffrey Rockwell
  • "Voyeur Tools: Reveal Your Texts"
• TADA: Text Analysis Developers Alliance
  • "TAPoR Portal Recipes"
• TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
  • "TAPoR"
• Turkel, William J
  • "Python on Digital History Hacks"
  • "Code Archive for Digital History Hacks"