Digital Scholarship Development

Welcome to Summer 2020! This is a short introduction to the fundamental skills that you'll need to complete your work this summer.

1 Setup (May 18 PM)

We'll begin with all the things that we need to have in place in order to get to work. This includes virtual environments, Github, code editors, and tools for communications, reporting, and project management (Slack, Zoom…).

2 Command line and Code Editors (May 19 AM)

3 XML & TEI (May 19 PM)

Here we introduce encoding, markup, and TEI as well as how to use Python's lxml library to parse and work with xml data.

4 HTML (May 20 AM)

XML goes world-wide

5 CSS & Bootstrap (May 20 PM)

CSS for style and Bootstrap for responsive pages.

6 JavaScript & P5.js (May 21 AM)

Drawing with JavaScript

7 Project work (May 21 PM)

Some practice and needed work time.

8 request / response (May 22 AM)

We begin working with FastAPI and the interaction between client-side and server-side

9 Project work time (May 22 PM)

10 templates and dynamic web applications (May 26 AM)

11 mini-blini project (May 26 PM)

We will add new functionality to a small existing project called blini

12 Django (May 27 AM)

Intro to Django

13 Python and Databases (May 27 PM)

How to work with databases with the Django ORM or Tortoise ORM. models.py

14 Forms and form data (May 28 AM)

About this course

This is a starter course for new digital scholarship workers. It covers many of the basic skills that you'll need to complete your work. It also introduces our particular way of doing things and tackling problems.

Haverford College Digital Scholarship

Digital Scholarship critically applies technology to scholarly inquiry, asking new kinds of questions and creating new forms of knowledge in the research, teaching, and learning of the Haverford College community.