I did the Python tutorials in two batches: one that took me 40 minutes, and one that took an hour and 20 minutes. There shouldn’t be any significance in this split, except that I felt my hands cramp up after the first 40 minutes. In my regular usage of the internet and word processing programs, I hardly ever touch the alternate characters of the number line. If procedural literacy has been thought of as a “requirement and right of an educated populace… for over 40 years,” then I am astounded that our keyboards do not allow for ease of programming (Mateas 111). In particular, I am confused that there is a specific number pad off on the right of every one of the Pitt computer lab keyboards but that there is no alternative for the awkward “Shift+ ” sort of input that is required to program. If the number pad is useful because it enables computers to more easily be used for business or number-crunching purposes, why is there not a keyboard layout that enables an easier way to type code? It strikes me as odd that the infrastructure available does not seem to comply with the general stated goals of programming literacy.As far as I can see, computational literacy is of great use to the study of English and the humanities in general. For me, it’s easier to see the necessity of computational literacy for research interests and pedagogical concerns that deal with the contemporary and the future. If one cannot understand procedure, then one will never look at code. However, even within the Python teaching module, there were many, numerous comments hidden within # lines and triple quotation marks. I think that these markers of human making can be as fruitful to study as earlier drafts of poems, diary entries, marginalia. (Even some computational literacy will give context to those comments.) Even in published video games produced by Nintendo and other major corporations, there are packets of unused code that contain clues about the direction that a game might have gone, at one point. This is amazing and incredible, but how relevant is computational literacy to something like Victorian literature? Well, besides being able to use computation as a tool in general research, I also think that literacy will let me (and others) analyze and interact with our current moment’s interaction with and reproduction of our collective (mis)remembering of the Victorian period. That might be Neo-Victorian studies, but that is a whole other area that I find super interesting.