Build Your First Software: A Historian's Introduction to Writing Code

A genuinely beginner-friendly hands-on lab. Historians build a small research tool from scratch — picking up the vocabulary of software building along the way (data model, schema, pipeline, version control) so the process demystifies what "building software" actually involves. Taught from a research software engineering (RSE) perspective, with attention to how LLMs are changing what teaching people to code looks like. No prior coding background assumed.