BlindProgrammingWebSite!

[suereyya poyraz <poyraz_bEi_uni-duesseldorf.de>]

>The Blind Programming list now has a site to go with it!  The URL is at
>http://www.mindspring.com/~brown99/ and is a place set up for anyone wanting
>to learn how to program, as well as a place for veteran programmers to share
>their knowledge as blind programmers that have mastered the
>visually-oriented tools of the trade!  The site will steadily be building
>its resource lists, as well as be a place for sighted and blind programmers
>that are willing to take the challenge, to develop speech-friendly tutorials
>and help files that will give those wanting to learn a chance to do so in a
>more friendly environment.
>We have the site broken down into the different languages, with each having
>its own file storage area.  As resources become available, they will be
>posted in those areas, and their presence announced on the Blind Programming
>list.  As users have questions about any topic dealing with programming,
>whether it is HTML, Java, Basic, Pascal, C and C Plus Plus, Assembly, Unix,
>or any number of languages not listed here, everyone will be encouraged to
>take a shot at answering the ones they can.
>We also have a few sighted programmers that have been kind enough to give
>programmers tips on the visual side of programming--such as what the screen
>layout on the Visual Basic v6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
>looks like, and which windows can go and which have to stay!
>In fact, we have our first "Speech-friendly" Visual Basic tutorial, Lesson#1
>uploaded today!  Since most tutorials have two disadvantages; 1) they tend
>to start off with drawing a nice little picture on the screen, and build on
>that throughout the rest of the tutorial, and since we're blind, we're
>thrown off the track at the start, and 2) we have no author to bounce
>questions that we have about their tutorial!  I asked the folks at the
>Visual Basic echo on Fidonet if they could come up with one that is
>"speech-friendly", and was surprised at the enthusiasm they showed!
>Lesson#1 in the Visual Basic's vb6tutor folder is the first installment, and
>looks like it is a challenge they have mastered pretty much out of the
>starting gate!  Care to try your hand at making your system do what *you*
>want it to do?
>You can join the Blind Programming list by sending an empty messageto
>blindprogramming-subscribe_bEi_onelist.com, or just go by the Blind Programming
>site and click on the Sobscribe link and be signed up in a flash!
>
>If you know of any material available that has anything remotely related to
>programming, please drop me a note at brown99_bEi_mindspring.com, or select the
>Moderator link on the Blind Programming site.
>If it is public domain, or if we get permission from the copyright holder,
>we'll see if we can post it to the site, and if you know of any references
>to copyrighted material on this subject, let us know that too, and we can at
>least put links to it from the BP site.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dennis Brown
>brown99_bEi_mindspring.com
>blindprogramming_bEi_onelist.com
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