Re: [Dev-C++] Hi verne

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

It feels a bit strange to mostly read only reading one side of a
discussion.

It was me who suggested that you should maybe try using notepad or similar
to write your code and then compile directly from the command line. I have
never tried a screen reader software, but it feels to me that it could
easily get confused by a highly graphical development environment with
lots of small sub-windows all over.

Anyway: if you do write your code in notepad, you don't have to "paste"
the code into the compiler. The compiler don't care the slightest what
editor you used to write the code, or what visual feedback was available
when the code was written. All it wants is for the source to be stored in
one or more files.

As I wrote before, a single source file "hello.cpp" can be built into a
working command-line application with:

g++ hello.cpp -o hello.exe

g++ is the name of the compiler, and must be in your search path.

hello.cpp is the name of your source file, and you should move to the
directory where you store the source file before running the command.

The name after -o is the name you want for the runnable program. If you
don't specify -o and a name, the resulting file will be called a.exe -
this works just fine, but after a while it gets a bit hard to remember
what a.exe actually does.

I must confess two things:

I don't know very much about how blind people really uses their machines,
so it isn't so easy to put myself into your situation.

My next problem is that I don't know exactly how much computer knowledge
you have. You could have been using computers your whole life (possibly
also programmed in other languages), or you could be quite unexperienced
with computers.

These two things makes it quite easy for me (and probably most other
people on this list too) to think or write "just do it" instead of
considering any problems involved. We live in a world of visual feedback
and tend to quantify difficulties based on our own experiences.

/Per W

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, yakir arbib wrote:

> Hi
> Hey man!,are you joking with me?
> Wow,I can send emails and such?...
> That is a bit unnice of you to say sucha thing
> There are lots of blind programmers hoo are 16 or 18 years old,so don't
> think I'm the first!
> And today's technology lets us [blind or vi people]  do every thing a
> sighted person would do with his comp,including programming!
> There are people my age[16] that programm very highly complikated audio
> games using not only x and y axess
> But the z axes that makes it even more difficult
> So that is not the problem, the problem is understanding some  basics ,
> and then from there make it grow and grow!
> And that's mainly what I wanna know!
> How do you get to the min gw compilet with out using the ide?
> Thanks
> yakir
>