From Humanities to Tech: How a Religion PhD came to be learning Python
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A humanities researcher retrains in Python starting October 2013 via Coursera, moves from command‑line IT tasks to hands‑on coding, and volunteers teaching at the Girls Programming Network. Describes relearning how to learn by embracing a fail first workflow, struggling with opaque error messages and jargon, and plans concrete projects: web scraping and textual analysis of local newspapers to measure sentiment about religions and correlate results with area demographics.
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- 0:00Start
- 4:22Process of Doing Humanities Phd
- 6:33Learning Python
- 9:33Error Messages
- 20:56Any Programs in Australia That Are Targeted towards Women
- 22:37Support Networks for Women Getting into Coding
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