Language comparison site
- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:47:38 -0700
here is the language comparison site that Chris spoke of, its called the fruit
basket demo, and as he said, its a basic program done in several different
languages so you can compare them.
the site is:
http://FruitBasket.QuantumMyst.com
take care,
inthaneelf
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----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hofstader
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [macvoiceover] Re: preparing for your install of snow leopard;
something to consider:
Hi,
I strongly recommend joining the programming blind mailing list (on freelists
I think). there you will find crusty old hackers like me, shit hot young guns,
nearly total newbies and seasoned professionals. Sometimes questions are
answered with links and other times people will provide a partial example so
you will have to learn how to get things done on your own.
The programming blind crew has worked with Jamal Mazrui to build a set of
identical programs called "Fruit Basket" which is the same program implemented
in a whole pile of different languages which is very helpful if comparing
programming languages/environments which it sounds like you would like to do.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:
Hi how are you? I have some questions on what programming tools would help
when it comes to learning and understanding the different programming
languages? I ask this question, because i've taken a couple of programming
languages and i'd like to know if there is a way to learn more about different
computer programming languages as well as what would be the best ways to use
access technology to our advantage while programming in different computer
languages for example basic, and c? Colbalt was the next language, but I'd
like to know if there is a computer language that comes close to the jaws
scripting language and how to transfer the skills from the computer programming
languages to the jaws scripting language? I would appreciate any information
that you might have? P.S. I'd also like to know if you may have heard of the
w e a program? I think that this is a program that people can take advantage
of and i'm learning some things that people can go to get certified to do but
the problem is that more people should know about such programs and how that
can be used as a tool to help reach the goal of employment.
I appreciate your thaughts and comments.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Stefik
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Sodbeans
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?
Hello folks,
We're getting pretty close here in our netbeans tools, possibly within
the next few months, to adding some very nice auditory enhancements to NetBeans
for blind users. I've got an overwhelming number of ideas about what could
help, but I can't implement them all and would like to get some feedback from
the community. Specifically, we're looking for some ideas in two main areas,
code completion and auditory navigation.
1. Code completion --- Whenever I've talked to folks in the past about
code completion with audio, people have suggested that one of the most annoying
issues with code completion is changes in focus.
Anyone have ideas about auditory code completion? Besides managing focus
better, anyone have any ideas on how to make it more accessible?
2. Auditory navigation --- I have a graduate student currently working on
a blind code navigation system. Right now, the system allows you to jump around
the source window and find variable declarations, method declarations, and
other similar things, but we want to expand the navigation to make things
easier.
One idea I had, for example, was to make the navigation window "debugger
sensitive" so that if you are navigating around while your code is executing,
there will be audio that tells you more information about what you've browsed
to. For example, if you navigate and land on a variable, it might tell you its
name, type, and if the debugger is running, what its value is, or other
information, depending on how much useful audio we can put into a short cue.
But really, we're doing this project for this community. We genuinely
want to make our tools as accessible as humanly possible, and we're going out
of our way to make it so. If anyone has any ideas about what kind of tools
would help you, go ahead and put them here, I'd love to hear about them!
Obviously, we have limited development time, so it's unlikely we'll
implement every suggestion, but brainstorming helps.
Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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