The last time I did programming was in the 1980's when I did dos basic. Dos basic doesn't even compare with the programming languages of today.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, at 18:24, der.hans wrote:
> Am 08. Feb, 2019 schwätzte Harold Hartley so:
>
> moin moin Harold,
>
> Helping with accessability is awesome!
>
> If you're not already familiar with programming I suggest a book that uses
> a language to teach programming concepts and branch out from there.
>
> I've been reading Practical Programming to re-familiarize myself with
> Python. It seems to be a decent book for learning to program. While I
> haven't done much development in years, I used to do a lot. As such, I'm
> not a beginning programmer, so my evaluation might be biased.
>
> https://pragprog.com/book/gwpy2/practical-programming
>
> The e-book is DRM free.
>
> Lots of software is written in Python, so there are many opportunities
> with it.
>
> A complaint that has come up on this list is KDE's lack of an
> accessability API. I know KDE wants to have one, but it hasn't yet
> happened.
>
> KDE work would likely be in C++, so you could target that language instead
> if you want to work on KDE.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > I’m interested in open source projects. I would like to help those with disabilities to use a computer for anything. But the software isn’t out there to help those with disabilities. I know because I’m disabled and deaf.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, at 11:57, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> >> Hi Harold,
> >>
> >> Start with the end in mind. What is your goal? Web? Working on Open
> >> source projects?
> >>
> >> Knowing that will help us give you feedback.
> >>
> >> Keith
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2019-02-08 10:33, Harold Hartley wrote:
> >>> I am interested in learning to write code and not sure where to start.
> >>> I'm looking for anyone that can steer me in the right direction for
> >>> books or web site that can help me get started.
> >>>
> >>> I currently run Fedora 29, with 1 TB drive, i3-7100 processor and
> >>> currently 4 GB ram but will be upgrading to 16 GB ram and with dual
> >>> monitors.
> >>>
> >>> So hopefully someone can point me in the right direction for info.
> >>> --
> >>> Harold Hartley
> >>> 17632 N. 5th place
> >>> Phoenix, AZ 85022
> >>> wheelie207@ownmail.net
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> >
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