By bmdalbisOn

I finally set up this website!

Here is a GIF to celebrate

January has been rough

Okay… now onto my reflection.

Monday

After thinking about it, I believe that computer coding/programming languages should count as a foreign language, mainly because it is a LANGUAGE. Java is a LANGUAGE. C++ (which I despise) is a LANGUAGE. HTML (which I love) is a LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE.

Like any other linguistic language, computer coding/programming languages are also complicated to understand if you have no background knowledge and are challenging to master. Like linguistic languages, not everyone is hard-wired to learn a new language *raise my hand*. Some coding/programming languages are also easier to understand than others. For example, HTML, Java (and JavaScript), Python, and C are the easiest languages. In contrast, C++ (which they taught at my high school for some reason), LISP, Haskell, Prolog, and Malboge are the hardest (hence why I have never heard of the last four).

Wednesday

I had to create a WordPress website for the Digital Storytelling class this week, so I could make this site quickly (because I learned the hard way with the first one). I chose a subdomain because my leading site is on WebsiteBuilder, and I liked how it looked, and a lot of time went into it. So, subdomains it is.

If you are in Digital Storytelling this semester and notice that my website for that class looks very similar to this website, *shhh*.

Friday

“Luddites,” people who are anti-technology reactionaries, are the same people who complain whenever something in society changes or evolves. The same people who reject the new social norms (mainly gender and sexuality) and those who wish back to the “good old days” (when things were objectively worse than they are today). Instead of evolving with society, they choose to stay in the past.

I hold firmly to my heart that Mary Shelley was the founder of modern science-fiction with her 1818 novel Frankenstein, which many consider the first science-fiction story. After reading Cory Doctorow’s essay on Luddites, I can see how some credit them with modern-day science-fiction. Their account has created the basis for which science-fiction can exist: imagining new ways that technology can do something and what it does.

The excerpts of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson were fascinating to read. I saw humanity getting rid of political systems and capitalist organizations running society. If this is the Metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg has in mind, then we are all doomed.