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Blind learners programming through audio

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Jaime Sánchez,

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CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057018

Published: 02 April 2005 Publication History

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The development of programming skills is a motivating issue in computer science. Most programming languages are focused on sighted users. This study introduces APL, Audio Programming Language for blind learners. APL is based on audio interfaces to assist novice blind learners to develop problem solving and algorithmic thinking skills. APL was designed by and for blind learners to construct meaning by making programs. We tested APL with novice blind programmers during and after development. They tried, analyzed, and make improvements to APL. Learners wrote programs to solve problems with increasingly complexity. Our preliminary results evidence that audio programming languages such as APL can be constructed to fit the needs and mental models of blind learners to motivate and help them to enter to the programming world.

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