[Blindmath] math software for college?

[Haden Pike]

Thank you. I will take a look at these programs.

I am not familiar with the R language so I'll look into that.

I am currently learning LaTeX.  HTML was the first language I learned 
and I notice a lot of similarities between the two.

As far as different programming languages go, I am reasonably skilled in 
python.
Haden

On 12/19/2010 12:40 PM, Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hello and good luck with the studies.
> A few suggestions:
> For web pages with math download the free MathPlayer from Design
> Science (www.dessci.com).
> If your teachers/profs want to give you hand outs or material in an
> accessible way they can use MathType from Design Science with Word and
> export the document as MathPage, then you can read it with IE and your
> screen reader of vhoice (except NVDA at this point).
>
>
> If you have math books endcoded in LaTeX or MathML you can also emboss
> them into Nemeth using either DBT from Duxbury or TSS from ViewPlus.
>
> For a calculator you could try the AGC (Audio Graphic Calculator) from
> ViewPlus ($299 though), it is a powerful calculator, but I am
> personally still learning it, just downloded it a week ago.
> Excel is also powerful for numerical calculations and graphs and such,
> but does not really solve equations or do calculus type stuff for you.
>
> Finally look into using the R language for computing, especially the
> command-line view. I can send you instructions but our R expert may
> still respond to your post and may tell you more.
>
> I learnt LaTeX myself to write math accessibly, it is a language, a
> bit like html, for writing mathematics, but there are two other
> editors you may want to look into and are optimized for blind users:
> ChattyInfty from the InftyGroup and
> lambda from the Lambda project.
> Neither are free but both should allow you to enter and work with math
> as a blind user.
>
> I'll put all of this together in a web page soon along with user
> reviews and instructions, I believe the School for the Blind in Austin
> has a good math resource page, I can dig it up and send it to you in a
> little bit.
>
> I took computer science and economics myself and graduated in 2002.
> My sincerest advice to you: Start now, get one of the "teach yourself
> c/c++/Java/Perl in 21 days books, the programming language does not so
> much matter the concepts are the same for all more or less) .. you can
> get them from www.bookshare.org, get a programming environment such as
> visual studio Express, SodBeans or Eclipse,  (all free) and start
> practicing.
> Work through one chapter a day, do the problems, if you run into
> something you don't understand, sign up to the Blind Pgrogrammers
> mailing list or the program-l mailing list and ask questions.
> If you get the basics of programming and have tried out compilation
> and debugging, on your own with some time to spare and your own book,
> you will do well. You may still manage if you haven't, but it'll be
> lots of sleepless ights and anxiety. I did it the wrong way, so would
> like to see others do it in a more relaxed fashion *grin*.
> Hope some of this turns out useful.
> Thanks
> -B
>
> On 12/19/10, Haden Pike<haden.pike at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Yes.  Textbooks were given to me in braille.
>> Haden
>>
>> On 12/19/2010 1:25 AM, Sarah Jevnikar wrote:
>>> Have you used Nemeth? How have you received your textbooks in the past?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Haden Pike
>>> Sent: December 19, 2010 1:13 AM
>>> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] math software for college?
>>>
>>> I'm completely blind.  I haven't used anything special in the past, just
>>> the calculator on my braille note.
>>> Haden
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2010 1:00 AM, Sarah Jevnikar wrote:
>>>> Hi Haden,
>>>> To help us be more helpful to you, there are some general questions for
>>> you.
>>>> What is your vision like? What have you used in the past for math? Once
>>> the
>>>> list knows these things we can direct you better.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sarah
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Haden Pike
>>>> Sent: December 19, 2010 12:49 AM
>>>> To: Blindmath at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: [Blindmath] math software for college?
>>>>
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> In a few months, I will be starting college.  What software would people
>>>> recommend to use to help with math classes, particularly calculus?  My
>>>> major will be computer science.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>> Haden
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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