RE: Indentation Griping...
- From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:22:36 -0500
Hi Nick,
If you don't use braille, you can create or use a sound scheme. They give
JAWS the ability to speak or play sounds for different indentations. I use
a sound scheme that plays indentation sounds every two spaces. With
Braille, I get two chances to see the indentation, because I can here it
and feel it. I indent my Python and PHP code two spaces. By default, JAWS
comes with 8 sounds that play a single piano note starting at middle C and
going up the major scale. I can use my ability to tell different notes to
associate one of the notes of the scale with an indentation level.
Including the margin and 8 indent levels, JAWS can indicate 9 different
indentation levels in my scheme. My scheme also plays sounds for various
controls and control states, which saves a lot of time because I don't
have to listen to it speak some control types and states. It plays the
sounds at the same time as it speaks the information from the controls. If
someone wants the scheme, I will send it to them. You can turn training
mode on so that you can hear the controls and states while the sounds play
so that you can get used to the associations. Maybe I can send it to the
elf and he can put it on his site so that people can just go and get it
without flooding the list with requests to get the scheme. The ability to
use sound schemes is one of my favorite features of JAWS. I recommend that
anyone who wants to be more productive discover how to use them.
Thanks.
Jim
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RE: Indentation Griping...
Hi.
I find that indentation actually helps.
I am mostly a c++ developer but our companies coding standards (and
nearly every other coding standard I've ever looked at) for c++ mandates
an indentation style.
With a Braille display and an editor that automatically does indentation
as you type it's not unfriendly but actually makes code much easier to
navigate.
I used to program with out a Braille display and could never understand
why any one would ever spend the huge amount of cache on one. That was
until I worked at Dolphin and was convinced to try one by one of the
other developers there. I now find it much harder to code with out one.
I'm not even a particular fan of Braille, The only time I use it is when
I'm giving a presentation and coding.
The other reason that indentation is a good thing to learn to do
automatically is that as I said before most coding standards require it
and from a visual point of view for my sited peers it's the normal way
to do things.
Just my 2 pennies worth
Cheers.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
Hofstader
Sent: 08 December 2008 12:38
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Indentation Griping...
Way back when I was a college student, sort of the Paleolithic era, many
languages, including Fortran, had rather precise indentation rules (even
a
variety of different CPU assembly languages) and many of these languages
were very important in the job market. The most prolific (including
Fortran) was COBOL which everyone hated but $75 p/h in 1979 made one
hate it
a lot less. I programmed in a language called Neat/3 which was sort of
an
assembly language with COBOL like extensions ($50 p/h) and we covered a
bunch of other languages with really peculiar indentation rules in
various
classes at university.
The worst thing I found back then about indentation rules (one could set
tab
stops which made things a lot easier) was that a label that one might
want
to jump to was constricted to a small number of alpha-numeric characters
and
usually a colon which made making code readable pretty difficult,
especially
as none of were too fond of comments back then because when using punch
cards adding another to the stack increases probability of shuffling.
I know COBOL has removed the requirement for indentation specifics in
more
recent versions but I haven't looked at Fortran in about a million
years. I
can't think of an assembly language I've programmed in since the late
seventies that had indentation rules either.
Your Virtual Grandpa,
cdh
Happy Hacking,
cdh
Chris Hofstader
email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
Skype: BlindChristian
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Python indentation?
Other languages don't have this??? Have you used Fortran?
And by the way you might think fortran is an old language. You would be
wrong. Fortran is still a power house in Parallel programming they use
it
to update satellite operating systems and man if you think python is
picky
just code in fortran a while you have to have comments in one column and
execution statements in another and variable definitions in yet another.
There are other languages as well.
Ken
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian
Rasnita
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:27 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Python indentation?
Well, I also think that the indentation is not exactly blind - friendly,
but
the others don't agree.
I didn't say that this should be the reason for not using python because
it
is impossible to solve it, but just that it is something unfriendly that
other languages don't have.
And I have also told about other things that I personally don't like,
for
example that python doesn't use braces, but this isn't something
unfriendly,
because there are programmers that like exactly this. It is just
something I
don't like.
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:38 PM
Subject: Python indentation?
>I haven't used Python yet but I expect that I will. I understand that
its
> indentation is significant to the meaning of the code on any given
line
> but
> don't decent text editors keep one's indentation properly aligned?
Adding
> audio to describe the indentation of any given line is simple and, of
> course, we all can use Jamal's editor to use braces while we type and
make
> them go away to compile properly.
>
> I don't know why people choose Python over any other language as I
have
> spent nearly zero time exploring it but, while indentation rules
aren't
> exactly blind friendly, I can't see it as a showstopper.
>
>
> cdh
>
>
> Happy Hacking,
> cdh
>
> Chris Hofstader
> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> Skype: BlindChristian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian
> Rasnita
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:15 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>
> A whole month?!
> It is much too much. One day would be enough, but I don't think I will
> start
>
> to like python's indentation in a single day, and probably not even
after
> a
> month.
>
> Oh, or if you will say that you don't like it but you just get used to
use
> it, then it is not enough.
>
> For the moment I can choose the language I need to use and I can
choose
> only
>
> what I personally like, no matter what others say.
>
> If I will see that I could be a part of a team that use python and I
could
> earn much enough to make the necessary effort of getting used to use
it,
> then I will probably start using it, but even in that case I don't
think I
> will say that python indentation is friendly for the blind.
> How friendly could it be if it requires a month to get used to use it?
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>
>
>>
>>
>> I took 1 month to get so used to the indentation I don't even think
of it
>> and I did not start with Python as I have previously said so your
just
>> arguing to argue here.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian
>> Rasnita
>> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:38 AM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included
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