Toal Newbie With Visual Impairment
- From: SimpleMan <lovenhim@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:03:25 -0800 (PST)
Hello everyone. I am a complete newbie when it comes to programing,
period. I am also visually impaired...if that makes any difference.
I would like to go back to college and get my degree but you know that
life happens sometimes and it can be hard to balance a job with
college. To make things simple I have been accepted to my local
community college, ECPI, and ITT tech. I will be able to go to either
school for free vis grants and the state because of my vision. Now
here is my question, or a handful of them. OK the reason that I want
to learn programing is that I feel that with my visual issues it may
be a better career choice. Networking career seems to make you have
to be mobile and have a drivers lisence, etc. Other areas of computer
study place you in what in reality is customer service more so that a
PC tech....call center or PC help desk for example. I have done those
jobs and have been treated badly by customers and employees because I
am simply not as fast as a sighted person. I feel that programing
will allow me to work at home or at a desk at my own pace and deal
with the PC rather than people all day. I have also been taking some
personality testing and found out that according to the tests I am
"geared" for programming. I would like to know how to start, where to
start and with what language to start with? I am seeing that the
colleges are starting with Visual Basic. My goal at first is for
learning for myself, not to see programs. I personally like what the
open source movement is all about rather than the commercial aspect of
it. I know you must make money if you want to live but what draws me
to programing is the "family" aspect, helping others, the GPL, the
learning, not the money. Now if someday I can become good enough to
write a good program like Adaware, spybot S&D, AVG, etc then that is
great. Is college the right route to learn programing? Do they even
really "care"? Does the degree and certification mean anything in the
"real world"? I am also wanting to learn Linux but for now I am using
WinXP....if that helps you in your advice for me. Thank you for all
the help. Keep in mind that I can not drive and that is why I am not
interested in networking and mobile jobs. :)
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