Re: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind programmers

I went to ASDB for a while, and that was a nightmare. I got yelled at for playing in the macro editor because I was "hacking," and we spent our classes scanning in those word things where you fill in the blank, transfering them to the braille note, revising, transfering them to an old dos computer where they were printed off in braille. 
On 4/8/2011 7:49 PM, Ken Perry wrote:

I challenge you to do something.  I think there is a blind school down by
where you're at because I have been down there recently.  I have been over
to KSB which is just next door to APH.  I am not impressed with two things.
computer learning and Math learning.  I have actually talked with students
out of those classes and they are not excited about technology all though it
is the one thing that will probably lift them above the fray.  I will say
out of 30 people one Girl impressed me with her knowledge and she was a
Junior.

Ken

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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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