[Blindmath] computer code

Fri Sep 23 21:49:16 UTC 2016

Personally, I love the books available on Green Tea press <http://greenteapress.com <http://greenteapress.com/>>.
Think Python is great and teaches lots of core programming concepts. The problems are challenging, but if your student gives them their best effort and compares their solutions to the author-provided ones, they will definitely become a better programmer.
The Turtle World section is (obviously) inaccessible; if your student has no vision, they will either need to skip that section, or (ideally) have a sighted person describe what’s happening when they run their programs.
The GUI programming section is also inaccessible, since it uses the Tkinter framework.
The books are available in LaTeX and HTML. The HTML version is probably your best bet, but you could probably convert the LaTeX version to Braille if your student prefers that.

Thanks,
Bill
> On Sep 23, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Lewicki, Maureen via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks! Yes bookshare is great but I was hoping to find websites that are accessible that a student could use to learn some things such as are presented on code.org<http://code.org>
> 
> Maureen Murphy Lewicki
> Teacher of the Visually Impaired
> Bethlehem Central Schools
> 700 Delaware Avenue<x-apple-data-detectors://1/0>
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> On Sep 23, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Smith, Andrew via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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> Bookshare is indeed a fantastic resource.  Many books on many
> different languages.
> 
> On 9/23/16, Martin, Vincent F via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
> I have been using the programming books on Bookshare for years.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Maher via Blindmath
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> Cc: Louis Maher <ljmaher at swbell.net<mailto:ljmaher at swbell.net>>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] computer code
> 
> Maureen,
> 
> An excellent source is bookshare.org<http://bookshare.org>.  Search for the computer language you
> want to learn.
> 
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> Phone: 713-444-7838
> E-mail: ljmaher at swbell.net<mailto:ljmaher at swbell.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Maureen via Blindmath
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> Cc: Lewicki, Maureen <MLewicki at bcsd.neric.org<mailto:MLewicki at bcsd.neric.org>>
> Subject: [Blindmath] computer code
> 
> Can anyone direct me to resources for blind students who want to learn
> computer code please? A teacher uses Code.org<http://Code.org>. Is it accessible? Can you
> direct me to things and websites that are please?
> 
> Maureen Murphy Lewicki
> Teacher of the Visually Impaired
> Bethlehem Central School District
> Bethlehem High School
> 700 Delaware Ave
> Delmar, NY 12054
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