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Hardest possible concur with everything OP said. Knitting and other fiber arts are the grandmother of computer programming, and I'd go so far as to say your CS
by twoquestions 1y ago
Hardest possible concur with everything OP said.
Knitting and other fiber arts are the grandmother of computer programming, and I'd go so far as to say your CS education is incomplete without at least passing knowledge of fabric weaving and especially weaving machine history.
Ignorance is not your fault, unfortunately they can't teach you everything in college, and people tend to downplay the importance and history of "women's work", much to all our detriment.
https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/jacquard-loom https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stor...
- nonethewiser 1y ago>I'd go so far as to say your CS education is incomplete without at least passing knowledge of fabric weaving Why?
- timerol 1y agoThe first programmable computer, using punchcards, was a loom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
- nmeofthestate 1y agoI'm going to go ahead and say that you can have a complete CS education without studying fabric looms.
- johnfn 1y agoYou won't have a full and comprehensive education as an author without spending a few months copying texts by hand in a scriptorium like monks did back in the 500s.
- mbonnet 1y agoHard agree. I'm not even that much of a fiber artist - I can crochet, and I can weave shepherd's slings out of plant fiber/paracord/other strings. But I believe the thinking patterns help me, especially in large-but-not-complex systems thinking.