[Blindmath] Performing calculations as a blind students, tips, tricks and advice for the NFB Youth Slam

[Ken Perry]

That's why I loved the Xplore calculator being a coder it used Pascal as its
functional language.  Then I got into sympy with python and love it even
more.  For example the Calculator on the Braille+ and Icon are written in
python and you can write your own functions.  There is nothing like doing
math in code.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:20 PM
To: john.gardner at orst.edu; 'Blind Math list for those interested in
mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Performing calculations as a blind students, tips,
tricks and advice for the NFB Youth Slam

Hi all,

I used to do math years ago in highschool and had it for college too. At
that time, I used turbo pascal's functions for solving problems. So, my math
would be
Sin(x)+cos(x)=something. Computer programming really helped me solve math
problems for instance, my concept of the use of brackets became very strong
after I used them in computer programs. Many times, I would write my own
program to solve a class of problem to solidify my understanding.

Pranav 


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