RE: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind programmers
- From: Rick Watson <rwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:54:00 -0700
Good morning,
I wanted to chime in on this one...
I think we're facing the dilema of gui interfaces. Let me explain. Yes we can
develop gui. Here's the issue. Kids today who program can create something much
faster using the vs environments (for example) than a visually impaired
programmer.
And it's the wow factor. Look at what I did in five minutes. It's much more of
a challenge for us to struggle fighting the tools.
rick
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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:21 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind
programmers
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think trying to just teach programming though is counterproductive
> because the classes in college do that rather well. I guess teaching people
> to use tools might be a better goal then teaching coding.
Well, you may be right. With the web, learning just about anything is
so much easier than when I was a kid. What remains a mystery to me is
why we're not seeing blind kids going nuts programming computers.
Surely they have plenty of access to them in the US. Is there
anything that can be done to inspire the new generation of blind kids
to dive in and learn what's under the hood? Why do so few seem to
make it?
Bill
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