[nfbcs] introduction

[Steve Jacobson]

Ty,

Welcome to this list.  You may not remember but we have corresponded on other programming lists, and I have generally been 
impressed with your willingness and ability to learn computer languages and environments.  

As you may already know, our list name comes from the association this list has with the Computer Science division of the National 
Federation of the Blind.  In addition to discussing specifics regarding programming, we also get into challenges that face us as 
blind people in computer science careers.  One of the things that many of us are facing is how do we maintain and progress in our 
careers as the technology changes.  Your background is one that could be very useful to those of us who need to know how to 
modernize our knowledge to keep current.  

As a division of the NFB, we also try to influence events that have an impact upon us.  We have some challenges in taking 
standardized tests, the accessibility of JAVA applications, effectively dealing with CAPTCHAs, and dealing with accessibility of 
modern websites, for example.  Over the years, we have had significant dialogs with Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, and others, 
including presentations at our annual meeting at the NFB convention in July.  We also try to help one another with specific 
problems that we encounter.

I hope you find the time you spend here useful.  Again, welcome.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson, vice-president
National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science 

On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:14:20 -0400, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:

>hello:
>My name is Ty; I heard about this list a while back, but hadn't joined it.

>I got interested in cs when I was about 12--I had an old Braille Lite 
>40, which was the replacement for my brailler back then. I picked up a 
>manual on basic from Dan Zingaro and pretty much got hooked on 
>programming from that point. About 24 hours later with lots of soda and 
>no sleep, I had a working two-player tic-tac-toe game.

> From there I've progressed to learning a few other languages; my 
>strongest being c++ and Python. After my first tic-tac-toe game, I tend 
>too spend a lot of time hacking on code. My current projects on the 
>workbench are a toy operating system I started to learn from, a mud 
>(based on an engine I started from scratch), and a multi-player 
>real-time stratagy space based game, as well as some other minor stuff.

>I recently transferred from Colorado where I was going to a smaller 
>school with less opportunities for classes that were around my level to 
>Boston, Massachusetts, where I will be going to Wentworth in the fall.
>-- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones 
>light-weight mud engine: http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud He that will 
>not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares 
>not reason is a slave.

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