[Nfb-science] Strategies for teaching Geometric Concepts to sighted Students

[Jamie P.]

VPython is as easy to learn as any beginner programming language, but the images you can produce with it are just 3D images. They aren't really accessible in any way I am aware of, unless you have an uncanny geometric intuition and can imagine what's on the screen just by reading the code. This tool would only be useful for producing images and figures if you're, say, teaching a class of sighted physics students. You'd still need to verify with a sighted person that your images display properly. But if you're comfortable coding, you can produce cleaner and more easily distributed images for your lectures this way than by drawing freehand with a tactile board, IMO

-Jamie

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> On Aug 30, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Mariya Vasileva <mkvnfb94 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 30, 2016, at 16:05, Jamie P. via Nfb-science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> You can code the graphics you need with VPython. Drawing vectors and various shapes and other objects is really easy. You might just need to have someone check the compiled output before you show it in class to make sure you have things positioned the way you want them.
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> Is VPython easy to learn? And, can it be used in drawing shapes as an alternative to a textbook if a person doesn't have a math book available to them in Braille at the start of the semester?