[Year 12 Its] Would anyone like this problem ?

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Or teach him Free Pascal http://www.freepascal.org :-P 
(ouch!)

Regards Roland

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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College 
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
 

-----Original Message-----
From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 4:25 PM
To: is at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 Its] Would anyone like this problem ?

Hi Folks,
 
       I have been happily meandering along with Borland JBuilder ( java )
for a few years as my IT Systems programming language. 

This year I have a blind student in class who is a very bright programmer
and uses a "screen reader"  called Jaws to describe to him what the screen
looks like at any point in time. He used this with VB and VB.Net last year
and did quite well.

     Now, on Friday we started Java, and to my chagrin discovered that Jaws
has no way of recognising the JBuilder screen and the RBIV ( Royal Blind
Institute of Victoria ) advised we were unlikely to succeed with JBuilder
and Jaws. For the record the RBIV advised that there are blind java
programmers working in industry ( how wonderful !!! )   but they use a
totally text based environment. 
 This meant that I was faced with one of the following choices :

                A. Trying to teach Java to this student in an entirely text
environment totally missing the benefits of the IDE 
 OR          B. Teach VB.Net to him by learning it myself in 5 minutes and
then preparing teaching material for him to be able to carry out the
learning.
 OR          C. Teach him PHP , but this could cause problems later if Jaws
takes a disliking to the environment in which it is being used.

   Faced with the smallest of 3 evils , I am inclined to try option B. 
  Any help or advice including good books, exercises and web sites to assist
would be welcome with open arms.

Regards
Kevork
Forest Hill College


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