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February 20, 2018

Tips for (finishing) a Good Technical Tutorial

Adam Crymble

So you’ve got an idea for a tutorial, and you’re excited to share it with the readers of the Programming Historian. This post outlines a few tips for how to sculpt that idea into a manageable and sustainable lesson, while also giving a sense of the level of work involved. We hope that this will help our authors at those early stages of the process, and encourage them to sculpt project ideas that will result in valuable finished lessons that our readers can benefit from.


February 15, 2018

Lesson Sustainability and Retirement Policies

Matthew Lincoln

Last year we were excited to introduce some important behind-the-scenes infrastructure changes that would help catch broken links and metadata errors across all of the pages and lessons in The Programming Historian. However, no set of technical solutions can address every sustainability problem faced by lessons about the fast-developing world of software.


February 13, 2018

Jennifer Isasi y José Antonio Motilla se unen al equipo de The Programming Historian en español

Maria José Afanador-Llach

Jennifer Isasi y José Antonio Motillo se han unido a The Programming Historian

December 30, 2017

Noticias destacadas del primer año de The Programming Historian en español

Maria José Afanador-Llach

Durante el 2017 hemos trabajado para crear una comunidad global de humanidades digitales

November 20, 2017

Convocatoria para editor de contenidos en español de The Programming Historian

Maria José Afanador-Llach

Desde su conformación el equipo editorial de contenidos en español ha traducido 28 tutoriales del inglés al español con el apoyo de una red de colaboradores de países tales como Argentina, España, Colombia y México. Continuando con nuestro compromiso con la diversidad lingüística, The Programming Historian (PH) está buscando un nuevo miembro para contribuir al equipo de editores de contenidos en español. El editor o editora trabajará para hacer accesibles los tutoriales de PH al público hispanoparlante, facilitará los procesos de traducción de tutoriales y actuará como editor de los mismos. De igual forma apoyará las estrategias para construir una comunidad que ayude a aumentar el acceso y la colaboración de PH en el mundo hispanoparlante.


September 21, 2017

Corpus Linguistics in Action: The Fireplace Pose in 19th Century Fiction

Viola Wiegand , Michaela Mahlberg and Peter Stockwell

Here at the Programming Historian, we have a number of lessons focused on “distant reading.” These lessons pull from a variety of fields to demonstrate different ways to computationally surface patterns across a large collection of digital objects. But how do you build on those patterns as part of a research project? That question of what to do next is what the authors of this post have set out to answer.


July 31, 2017

Infrastructure for Collaboration: Catching Dead Links And Errors

Matthew Lincoln

The The Programming Historian has enjoyed a huge surge of new lessons and translations this past year. This work wouldn’t be possible without our ever-growing community of authors, reviewers, and editors. But as teams get bigger, one needs to take special care to organize around that size.