Tanish blind coder from India
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Name: Tanish Shrivastava Age: 20 Country: India
Programming is something which has held my attention for a long while, but since I did not learned to use a computer until my teen years, I have to wait for learning that. otherwise, I think I would have started earlier than I did.
I am learning programming for little more than one year of time, and the language which I am studying is c. (not c++!)
It should be noted however, that trying to find someone who will teach you programming as a blind student... is hard. but yet here I am, almost mastered the basics of c, and am about to move on to the more advance topics. perhaps it took me longer than someone who took the computer science class, but it did not discouraged me.
My current goal is, to create something useful, something which is not just a text based program. naturally, as I advance, I wish to learn everything which I can possibly learn, algorithms, new programming languages, things like that.
Also, thank you CodeAbbey, for providing the problems on which beginners like myself can practice.
Tanish, hello!
Sorry for delay with the answer! And thanks for your story. It is both inspiring and useful for me and others :)
I also started using computer when I was about 15 or so - and I was often envious to people who start at 10 or even 7. But I think it is ok. It is good we started anyway :)
Very interesting to know something still uses pure C. I wrote in it (not c++) for about 10 years and was quite happy. Now I still use it for electronics development.
You are very courageous mastering this despite any obstacles. I tried screen readers one week when I had sight issue and urgent task to code (some test for some company). It was really difficult...
As about your goal. I believe you'll be able to create many useful things. Programmers like you are extremely important for other blind people - because you both know how to code - and know what software is really necessary.
Don't hesitate about "just a text-based" programs. One of the obvious further directions is to learn about programming web-servers. You know that web-server is just a program which receives text requests and generates and sends text (either readable or with data). It is what powers everything - from multiplayer games to banking.
I think with C experience you shall find it easy to try PHP, which ase similar syntax and is used for dynamic generation of content from web-server. When you decide to try, just wrote - I hope I'll be able to give hints about how to proceed with it!
And thanks for all your kind words :)
Rodion,
Sorry for such a late reply. I actually never thought that the creator of this site himself would reply to my post.
Interesting for you to talk about php, since I wanted to start in web after I am done with c.
I would definitely learn that language, since it is not only used widely, but now I have someone like you to give me hints.
I suspect that most sighted people have trouble using screen readers because they are not used to listening. or they don't have the correct text to speech voice installed, which sounds much more clear.
Anyway, I wanted to brush up on my arays before I continue to solve more problems. so I will go and do that now. and again, thanks for creating such a wonderful place.