[BlindMath] [Blind Math] Coding Group and Coding tutor for Vision Impaired High School Student

Tue Feb 8 19:45:01 UTC 2022

Shail,

Indentation is not as big a problem as it might seem on the surface.  There are ways of dealing with that depending upon the screen reader being used and the code editor.  Still, learning some of those other languages certainly can't hurt.

I read a good book on Python from Bookshare, but the indentation on their examples did not come through.  However, if one learns the rules of indentation, this isn't necessarily something that would make the book useless.  The book I read was called "Lean Python."  Perhaps others here know of a better source.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] [Blind Math] Coding Group and Coding tutor for Vision Impaired High School Student

Thanks Ken, Jason, Traci, Steve, SuperSilly and others who responded privately! We have joined the mailing list as suggested. 

My daughter knows Python to some extent as she opted for it in the high school and liked it but I was looking forward to help her learn language like JAVA, C#, C++ which uses curly braces as scope delimiter and therefore, I believe, may be more accessible compared to Python’s approach which uses indentation. (that’s my personal opinion though 😊). Moreover, I believe, JAVA is the preferred languages for Comp Science students in Universities so that's another reason for the bias.

I'll also try out the Bookshare to see if there are any interesting books that may help!

Thanks
Shail

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] [Blind Math] Coding Group and Coding tutor for Vision Impaired High School Student

You might want to look for mentors.  I have taught two people python and I used to be very active on the original programming lists.  They got to ugly so now I I help people when they ask.  Most of the time all it takes is help getting started.  Of course the problem is not always learning coding but I have found in the two students I have had and  the many I have worked with over the years screen reader  skills have been more problems than learning coding.  If you can't dig through the web pages of information you can't
learn to code.      

I will also point out if it only took reading a book for your  son there are at least 100 python books on Bookshare that are very good.

Ken

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Coding Group and Coding tutor for Vision Impaired High School Student

My son is interested in coding and has learned some Python here and there.
It is very user friendly with a screenreader.  We have not had much luck in finding online programs to use though for tutorials and local camps are completely inaccessible.

Traci

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:28 PM Shail M via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a parent of a High School student who is having severe vision 
> impairment since birth. She is willing to learn Coding in JAVA using 
> Visual Studio Code or any other accessible editor. I was wondering if:
>
>
>   *   Is there's a mailing group for coding learners like this group for
> Math?
>   *   Any accessible tutorials that teaches coding to Vision Impaired?
>   *   Any accessible tutorial for configuring Visual Studio Code to be
> used by student? Or any other code editor which is accessible.
>
> Also, I am wondering if anyone with coding experience want to take on 
> the challenge of tutoring this student JAVA programming? If any of you 
> are interested, please reply to me privately and we can talk further 
> about
it?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> Thanks
> Shail
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