By Annapia Borraccino DRI Participant, Winter 2024 “Coding can’t be that hard, you just need to practice it.” This was my mantra before I chose to move all the way …
Tag: GCDRI
My Feelings on the Digital Research Institute
“Hello, world!” That’s the message that we prompted our computers to print with the first line of code that we wrote, and it really felt like saying hello to a …
Lessons from the DRI – Coding & Communication: Knowing What We Say Rather than What We Mean
The GC Digital Research Institute (DRI) educates in more ways even than advertised. GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI), the program that runs the DRI, advertises that it will teach CUNY students, …
The Digital Research Institute Workshop Series
Between January 29 and February 27, the Digital Fellows ran their annual Digital Research Institute (DRI), which teaches foundational skills for doing digital research, as a remote Workshop Series. For …
Git Ready.
This week, I am teaching git and GitHub. In the workshop, I will cover some basic commands in this incredibly powerful software (git) and its incredibly robust hosting service for repositories (GitHub.com). …
Participation, Collaboration, and an Opportunity to Find Out How Much We Can Do
In our series of guest posts by #GCDRB participants, Dr. Lavelle Porter shares his experiences as a faculty member at our inaugural Digital Research Bootcamp. Lavelle is a graduate of …
Finding Your Way Through the Obstacle Course of Code
As Digital Fellows, we occasionally share our reflections on the process of exploring digital research here on Tagging the Tower. During the Digital Research Bootcamp we invited 35 interdisciplinary scholars …
DRB Recap!
For four days in late January, 35 students and faculty from around CUNY gathered at the Graduate Center to take part in GCDI’s inaugural Digital Research Bootcamp. These individuals represented …
