Coding: Art or Craft?
summary
Argues that coding fits two concrete metaphors: software craftsmanship manifesto codifies a guildlike apprenticeship model that attracts several thousand signatures and leads companies to adopt apprenticeship programs, while code as art points to aesthetic claims — Ruby and PHP become artistic media, the Piet esolang renders programs as pixels, and an algorithm auction at the Cooper Hewitt sells source code (Obama printout, OKCupid algorithm) as cultural objects. Concludes both metaphors apply and recommends giving the art framing more weight.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:29Metaphors - a framework to understand the how's and why's
- 3:43Code as Craft
- 11:22Code as Art
- 12:31Renaissance Humanism
- 15:27Code & Art: Creation Process
- 20:27We make aesthetic choices.
- 22:11Code & Art: End Result
- 26:17Personal Reaction
- 28:22It's all about the ideas.
- 29:47Code ? Art: Craft
- 32:23attract more diversity
- 34:05Software Sculptors
