Microsoft teaches blind children how to code codes

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Thi Holroyd and Auli Gerti shares a normal passion – they both love coding.

But until recently, two students at King's College School in Cambridge were difficult to attend.

Theo blind, he did not work for the way to introduce children for simple coding ideas.

Scratch used in hundreds of primary schools is a visual program that involves dragging the colored blocks of code around a screen and then viewing an animation.

Now, Microsoft has developed a programmable programming language.

Code Jumper consists of a set of pieces, each of which represents a line of code, representing a set of commands.

They created a different program to create a program – Theo and Olly tested this test and renewed the test.

The project was led by a computer scientist at Microsoft's Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cecilia Morrison.

She had a personal reason to think about the problem of educating children in the eyes of hers – her father was born blind just six years ago.

"We wanted to know about the world he's going to," she explains, "and they say that many old codes were about to learn the code at a very young age, and they did not get any way to study the code."

Microsoft and their colleagues immediately decided that they needed to have children – "they have their hands on what they have, and they have meaning in their world."

Music is also a part of it – each song can program to play a specific note, as well as young coders can be placed in different symbols.

"Cutlery has dial and they can change the volume or length of the commands in their program," said Morrison.

With Scratch, this is a basic introduction to the idea of ​​programming, that children can move into more complex coding languages.

That has worked as a mouthpiece.

"Python can access from being able to understand all of these concepts," he says.

When he asks Thio that he wants a career now in technology, he hinders me, "Certainly!" His project plans to make phones and computers more accessible to the blind.

Code Jumper now plans to sell to UK, US, Canada, Australia and India after four years of development.

Sicily Morrison hopes to use this invention for all children: "We do not want to bring these blind kids out of their mainstream classes, but use all the children in their children together, and interact with their classmates as well."

Certainly the action of Ao.

A code jumper program collaborates and collaborates with them shows that they are both friends and have a lot of learning.