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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Joe:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The decision only you can make about learning programming, let alone a programming language, is whether the amount of effort required to learn what you need to learn is sufficient given the amount of automation you are hoping to achieve. The amount of effort you need to expend is greater if you yourself have never written a computer program or learned a programming language to begin with. I know some folks on this list are suggesting learning Python right out of the box. I do not dispute the notion that Python is a language that works. What I want to be sure of is that you yourself understand the kind of automation you need and the amount of effort you are willing to make to achieve this automation. Once you have made that personal decision, then you can begin charting a course towards learning what you need to learn in order to achieve the automation you want.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael McQuaid via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 23, 2025 1:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Learning Programming<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Joe -<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I wonder if the Beginner's guide to Python at <a href="https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide">https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide</a> would be a good resource. This is part of the official Python documentation and looks screen reader friendly. Many of the other resources I found seemed questionable, but this may be reliable.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Mick<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 1:50\u202fPM Brian Buhrow via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal> hello Joe. There are a lot of books on Bookshare purporting to teach you Python<br>programming. I've read some of them, and they are a mixed bag in terms of their usefulness<br>from Bookshare, primarily because for the ones I selected, the illustrative examples were not<br>included in the Bookshare package. What I suggest is combing through that list and downloading<br>ones which look interesting and keep working through the list until you find one where the<br>examples are accessible and the prose makes sense to you. Some of the books assume you already<br>know how to program in other languages and some will teach you basic programming skills, using<br>Python as a starter language. If you are not already a programmer, I suggest one of these<br>beginner books. To make it more interesting for yourself and to help you focus on what you<br>need to learn, I suggest thinking of a small scope task you'd like to automate and reading with<br>the intention of learning how to complete that task.<br><br>Hope this is helpful.<br>-Brian<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/mickmcquaid%40gmail.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/mickmcquaid%40gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>