Explorations of Human and Computer Languages

Catalog description

In this non-computer programming course, students will explore the relationship, including similarities and differences, between human language and programming language. Students will synthesize these languages by exploring shared and unshared characteristics including meaning, logic, and how they are learned. Students will address real-life debates around programming languages and HTML, as well as imagine how programming languages and HTML may acts as a global lingua franca, or common language, in the future.