[Trainer-Talk] Accessible, gamified coding platforms

[Asanda Pavlacka]

Perfect, I will. Thank you so much. It’s looking promising already.

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> On Oct 28, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Jeremiah Beasley via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would recommend looking at Quorum.  It is made to be accessible and they
> have a great game engine.  You can create websites with it as well.  All
> lessons are online and free.  Check it out at  https://quorumlanguage.com/.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Jeremiah
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:24 PM Asanda Pavlacka via Trainer-Talk <
>> trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m looking to see if anyone has any experience with any particular
>> platforms out there teaching computer coding with a gamified methodology
>> implemented in the teaching process. this would be for a high school aged
>> student. The interest is to learn some basic coding, web development, and
>> ultimately even some video game creation.
>> A lot of the platforms I have found are paid platforms and that’s not
>> real easy to make a quick assessment on without spending the money for each
>> to find out. I did log on to code academy which is free, and so far the iOS
>> application it’s not all that accessible.  Logging on through a Windows
>> computer  it’s still pretty inaccessible with a screen reader. Each method
>> has its own hangups and inaccessibilities.
>> 
>> 
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