I have a friend who wants to learn how to program. But the problem is he's blind and he's checked the libraries in Australia and none of them have any books on learning programing in Braille. So /prog/ do you know of any audio courses for high level programing languages?
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Anonymous2009-03-17 10:36
1. Buy a Kindle 2
2. Go to Amazon.com
3. Buy the books
4. Play as audio
Or just take any online text and put it through TTS.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 10:42
A text readers an option, but an audio course would be preferred. Last resort is large text or me helping him with it.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 10:49
He could listen to the SICP lectures.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 10:50
download pirated books, then run them through microsoft sam or whatever.
there are alot of pirated books on the interwebs.
allah bless dem pirates
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Anonymous2009-03-17 11:01
>>4
but how would he look at the beautiful code? most of the time they don't say it out loud
>>8
It's like.. you know how people who doesn't understand english will understand if you speak slow enough and loud enough? It's the same with the blind. If the font is large enough even blind people can read it.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 14:41
>>1
I know exactly what your friend needs. Teach him to program in Inform 7.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 19:34
is just pissed self in the cloth
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2009-03-17 20:13
Is he blind blind or just partially blind? If he's completely blind, than I'm sorry to say but maybe programming isn't the best hobby to take up... though I don't have the heart to tell him :(
Have you tried introducing him to piano?
>>11
I have a small group of friends. Well I have two, lets call the one who's blind Dan. My other friend Joe and I want to make a Game. Dan wants to join in.
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He's partially blind, he cannot read large text although. He can only view things in the very side of his field of vision.
I've decided to teach myself and him at the same time. Oh and he's fucking insane at mathematics so I think he'll enjoy programing.
That reminds me, I read a thread somewhere on the Python list about a blind user who had some sweet emacs setup that would read Python code out loud, indentation and all.
Anyway, just find any web tutorial, and he can read it on his Braille strip or use his screen reader or whatever.
There's probably some blind programmers usenet group or whatever, too, where you could ask stuff like this if you had a legimate need.
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A gentleman I'm acquainted with is mostly blind and works as a senior programmer in EDS1. He uses a fucking huge screen magnifier to see one and a half characters at a time.
We got him to ride a bike before by shouting directions at him, and he loved it. He's also a piano genius.
The thing is, he may be blind but puts the effort in to do things as well or better than those who can see, and that's what's important.
If your friend really wants to learn to program, he'll find a way too.
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OMG Ministry of Defence uses code written by blind programmers! And Ministry of Justice too, fuck, ``Justice's blindfold'' is supposed to be a fucking metaphor, not something that spawns software bugs biting your unlucky arse off!