Miltner, K.M. orcid.org/0000-0001-6964-1023 (2022) Everything old is new again: a comparison of midcentury American EDP schools and contemporary coding bootcamps. Information & Culture, 57 (3). pp. 255-282. ISSN 2164-8034
Abstract
Over the course of the past decade, coding has been positioned as a silver-bullet solution for several key issues in the US tech industry. The coding bootcamps that have sprung up in response to the contemporary coding obsession may appear innovative, but they bear a remarkable resemblance to the electronic data programming (EDP) schools that proliferated during the “software crisis” of the 1960s and 1970s. By comparing the current coding craze and coding bootcamps to the software crisis and EDP schools, this article not only draws attention to the remarkable similarities between the two periods and institutional forms but also identifies specific qualities and problematic practices of EDP schools that threaten to repeat themselves with coding bootcamps. It then concludes with some reflections about why certain “forgotten” histories of computing are more relevant now than ever.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the University of Texas Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Information & Culture. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | coding bootcamps; computing education; learning to code |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2022 17:13 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2022 13:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.7560/ic57302 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193244 |