This week marks the transition from Claude Artifacts to Claude Code Web. We’ll explore what it means for humanists to engage with code — not as software engineers, but as scholars who can use AI to build tools, prototypes, and interactive projects. No prior coding experience is required.
NEH Workshop 4: Web and Interactive Applications (June 24, 10 AM - noon, CHDR) — This workshop introduces Claude Code Web and explores building interactive digital humanities projects with AI assistance. Students who attend will reflect on and extend the discussion exercise; those who do not will complete it asynchronously.
Readings
- Martin, Meredith. “Command Lines for the Humanities.” PMLA 139.3 (2024): 541-547.
- Willison, Simon. “Not All AI-Assisted Programming is Vibe Coding (But Vibe Coding Rocks).” simonwillison.net. March 19, 2025.
- Willison, Simon. “Using Git with Coding Agents.”
- Cohen, Dan. “The Index and the Vector.” Humane Ingenuity.
Slides
Discussion Prompt
Workshop Exercise - Machine Learning and Code. Using Claude Code Web, build a complex, multi-file interactive project relevant to your discipline (a text analysis tool, a timeline, a quiz, a data explorer). This should be more ambitious than a single Artifact: plan on a project with several files that you develop over multiple commits, rather than one all-at-once generation. Provide your own materials to ground it — your own images, text, data, or other source content — so the project reflects your discipline rather than placeholder content. No prior coding experience is required. Submit a link to your GitHub repository. If you build something that isn’t web-based, that’s fine — the repository link is enough. If it is web-based, deploy it on GitHub Pages and include that link as well. Reflect on the experience of co-authoring code with AI and what this means for humanities pedagogy. (This week marks the transition from Claude Artifacts to Claude Code Web for exercises.)