RE: Programming Preferences Was RE: I feel like giving up on programming altogether!

  • From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:11:20 -0400

Hi,
I should have followed your progress more carefully. What languages does this 
support?

Thanks.

Jim

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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:58 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Programming Preferences Was RE: I feel like giving up on 
programming altogether!

Thanks, Joseph,

We're going to try. This summer, we are doing a conference at the
Washington State School for the blind with about 13 blind and visually
impaired kids doing testing of the 1.0 release, to see what we did
wrong, what we did right, how we can improve, and what we should focus
on in the research. Next spring, the WSSB is teaching a full class in
what will ultimately be the 1.5 release of Sodbeans. Next summer, 2
more schools are getting involved and and are teaching classes, and
the year after that, 2 more.

And after that, I suspect we will attempt world domination <insert
meniacal laughter here>

Stefik


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I hope that one would be adopted in wide range of schools... Good luck.
> Cheers,
> Joseph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:39 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Programming Preferences Was RE: I feel like giving up on
> programming altogether!
>
> Joseph,
>
> Yes, that part of the language was based on python, as we really
> couldn't think of any way to make it simpler. I mean, at the end of
> the day, you can't get easier than just print!
>
> You can also say
>
> say "Hello, World"
>
> which patches through to the screen reader
>
> and input("What do you want to get")
>
> which pulls up an accessible window that coordinates with the screen
> reader and returns text
>
> Our first release of Sodbeans, version 1.0, is (scarily), a week from
> tomorrow.
>
> Stefik
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Sounds similar to Python's syntax... If that works great, I guess that
>> should be an intro version for beginners... Thanks for this tip.
>> Cheers,
>> Joseph
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:23 AM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Programming Preferences Was RE: I feel like giving up on
>> programming altogether!
>>
>> In the language we are distributing in Sodbeans (Called Hop) to
>> schools for the blind, hello world is done like this:
>>
>> print "Hello, World!"
>>
>> When you run that in the debugger, it outputs to the screen reader,
>> "Hello, World was printed to the console." You can then go to the
>> console and verify, if you really want to.
>>
>> Stefik
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