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January 27, 2005
Student needs in the classroom
Recently on the PLT Scheme mailing list, a question came up regarding the DrScheme editor pane and students with particular vision needs. Students with vision difficulties often increase text size and reverse colors for higher contrast; the question was whether or not this was possible in DrScheme.
The answer is that yes, in the currently-beta-but-usable-and-soon-to-be-released version, it is possible to completely invert the colors.
As pedagogic IDEs take their place in the classroom (as opposed to introducing students to programming using a professional environments like Eclipse, or with no support at all, like the command line), it will become more important that these kinds of needs are addressed.
(Alas, there is an error in the Scheme code above. Had it followed the methodology laid out in How to Design Programs, the mistake might have been avoided!)
Posted by mjadud at January 27, 2005 11:51 AM