What is the purpose of
a liberal arts education? Commencement
speakers have assured generations of
college graduates that the real value is
less in
what they've learned than
in
how they've learned to think.
This talk will present a personal case
study in learning to think through code.
Along the way, it will argue that coding
belongs not just on the periphery of the
liberal arts, but at the center of a new
canon.
About Diana
Diana is an MBA candidate at Harvard
Business School. While at Harvard College,
Diana Kimball studied history; after
graduation, she moved to California to
design software. Upon returning to campus
two years later, she decided to begin
learning how to
build software in
earnest. Since that moment, she has
written countless surprisingly useful
scripts, survived the college's
introductory computer science course, and
launched two full-fledged web
applications.
As a co-creator of ROFLCon, Diana's
interest in internet culture runs deep.
Most recently, this interest has expressed
itself in her programming pursuits and in
her efforts to apply an open-source ethos
to mentoring. She's also exploring the
concept of total authorship as it relates
to art.
Link
- Diana's
blogposts on coding