ABSTRACT
Software and programming skills have become critical components of digital, networked, and data-driven urban living. Recent coding initiatives provide new opportunities to explore spaces of coding, and the interplay between knowledge, reasoning, skills, lived experiences, and embodied interactions when compiling software code. This chapter draws on research ‘code-alongs,’ or participation in coding sessions, and focuses on sound-making during a tutoring session. It demonstrates the excitement and difficulty of translating everyday experiences into code and expressing them in the logic of code. It further calls for greater attention towards how social and embodied practices remain significant in engineering networked, connected urban futures.
