A Gentle Introduction to Coding: Narratives From a Programming Summer School for Social Sciences and Humanities

Here’s an example of how the love of coding can spread to people who never tried it before. Authors describe an approach to learning programming skills by building on student’s previously existing thinking patterns, and how it could be used to run a course. A group of 20 brave social scientists spent a week of their summer to pair-program together, exchange metaphors, and add coding to their toolkits.

This chapter is for you if you are curious about how lofty, idealistic ideals (of ‘gentle’ teaching) can be translated into course design and teaching methods. It also includes a lot of practical advice about feedback gathering, course design, and the practicalities of running a bootcamp.