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The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious. Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this couplig, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy.

Computers and literacy. --- Literacy --- Computer literacy. --- Written communication --- Programming languages (Electronic computers) --- Rhetoric --- Computer programming --- History. --- Study and teaching. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Electronic data processing --- Languages, Artificial --- Digital literacy --- Literacy, Computer --- Technological literacy --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Literacy and computers --- computer programmering --- kommunikation --- retorik --- skrivning