[nfbcs] introduction for programming question

[Dan JanJanin]

I learned coding when I still had good enough vision, and so can't speak
directly as to how to learn as a blind person.  I do applaud and encourage
your efforts.

Here's some refernces that I've found useful over the years:
1. www.safaribooksonline.com - an extensive reference of technical books
that have decent accessibility (subscription required).
2. www.pluralsight.com - a technical training site with marginal
accessibility (subscription required).
3. www.stackoverflow.com - a developers site where you canas questions and
receive answers to coding questions (free).  Generally someone has already
ask the question you may have.
4.  www.google.com - Google is a developer's best friend.

In general, I've found that once  you've learned the basic concepts, most
languages are very similar -
Keyword and syntax become the biggest difference.

Hope this helps.

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Petras Vasiliauskas via
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Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2018 3:43 PM
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Cc: Petras Vasiliauskas <icdxpetras at gmail.com>
Subject: [nfbcs] introduction for programming question

Hi everyone, 
My name is Petras and I just joined the list. I'm a sophomore in high
school. I am good with both mac and windows. I have a braille display. 
I'm taking a computer principles class.  We finished the principles part and
are about to start coding. The class is using BlueJ. Has anyone had success
or problems with this IDE? 
I am the first totally blind student taking this class in our high school.
The computer science teacher and my VI teacher seem quite unsure on how this
is going to work.
I really want to learn how to code. 
I would appreciate any suggestions that any of you can offer to help get me
started with coding. 
Thanks in advance.
Petras

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