I had no intention of knocking Braille, I was just wondering if the Braille literacy in programming circles follows Braille literacy development in general.
Florian Beijers, the author of the blog post, actually mentioned in another context that Braille is indispensable for understanding more complicated code.
Regards, Harri On 29/01/2015 19:22, John J. Boyer wrote:
Well, I certainly use Braille for programming. Don't knock Braille just because speech is available. John On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:01:27PM +0100, Harri Pasanen wrote:On 28/01/2015 20:14, Susan Jolly wrote:I find it impossible to comprehend why braille-using programmers wouldn't prefer to learn, read, or write computer code using the same characters that sighted people doKind of off topic, but I just read a blog post by a blind programmer: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-without-opening-your-eyes.html Since screen readers and voice synthesis have come long ways, I wonder how many blind programmers still use braille to help in programming, especially for reading braille? Regards, Harri For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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