A very gentle introduction to programming logic.

This workshop is for the:

• Uninitiated: You’ve never written a line of code, and you’re not sure where to start.
• Curious: You want to know what programming can do.
• Improvised: You know how to do what you need to do, but you never got the basics.

In this 90-minute session, we will define concepts that are common across programming languages, including data types, loops, functions, and arguments. By the end of the session, you will have developed a mental model of the logic behind programming and practiced interpreting and documenting that logic. 

The workshop is open to all but designed especially for those who are new to programming (e.g., humanists interested in digital humanities), and we will work with example code in various languages.

Workshop materials are adapted from “Programming Logic for Non-Programmers,” written by Kat Koziar and Stephanie Labou, 2025.