So is Python like a Kurzweil 2661 with all sorts of bells and whistles to make rapid composition easy? *smile*
On 07/27/2010 05:01 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
Wow, so many blind musicians on this list. Homer's spirit lives on! I once toyed with the idea of writing a website showcasing all of the famous blind musicians in history throughout the world. There've been quite a few, you know. Bach himself was blind at the end of his life as was Handel. then there's Rodrigo, Wonder, Healey, Milsap, Charles, Fuenlana, Ah Bing ... Anyway, on to programming: c++ can be a beat down. It can frustrate you and make you wish you could just give up. I don't recommend it, hwoever. I don't know what instrument you plan but mine is the classical guitar. No amp, no pick-up, no fancy shmacy electronics, pedals; not even metal for my strings. It's just me and that box of wood and strings and my music. Learning c++ puts me in mind of what it was like to learn proper positioning, finger placement, timing, and interpretation. It's grueling, frustrating, and sometimes painful. Guitarists need callusses and your hands have to stretch in all these weird ways. In the end, though, you can make something out of nothing because you can generate music where there was none. c++ is like that, you know. You wrestle with it a bit but, if you hang in there, you will find it as rewarding as your music in another way. You'll be able to craft applications and share them with others either for free or for a fee precisely as you do with a song. But, you won't get there if you give up because your fingers hurt, your lips hurt, your body is cramped or any one of those excuses people who think they want to learn to play music use to give up. cd players just work, after all. All you gotta do is press a button and you got music. Just depends on who you wanna be. The one making the music, or the one who can only listen without knowing how it was all put together. Alex M On 7/27/10, The Elf<inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:hey, you sound like me, I sit here watching what these folks are working on and sometimes feel like I'm permanently a shade of envy green! some small apps for easy functions is all I have managed as well, and I use VB 6, so I'm also fading out in usability here as well! so your one up on me but... were both one up on a lot of people since we can make some sort of program work, I know and spend time around folks that if you say function, there thinking of a fund razing party of some sort,and an if statement would be "if I went to the store is there anything you need?" lol! take care, elf Moderator, Blind Access Help Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises Specialists in customized computers and peripherals - own the might and majesty of a Alacorn! www.alacorncomputer.com proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jes"<theeternalkid@xxxxxxxxx> To:<programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:52 AM Subject: C++ and I are getting divorced. Lol thought I'd put a humorous subject in there to try and lift my spirits a little bit. I've been working on a project for five days straight, sacrificing sleep and other stuff to get the stupid thing done, and I've decided that while I like programming, C++ is a bit to complicated for me at this point. I am a musician, so after I get this beast of an assignment done, I'm divorcing C++ and moving back to music for a bit. Audio editors and sequencers all do whatever I tell them too, they don't bitch at me like M S Visual Studio or GCC. As the average pc user declares, "They, just, work. " Grin. I won't be able to make anything more than simple programs, no matter how much I like programming. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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