| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 18:24:51 |
| Subject: | Re: dyslexic Andrew Guard (was Re: Talkin to computers) |
On 08-Aug-00, Andrew Guard wrote:
> One of the amazing pardoxis with people who are dyslexic has been
> linked to uncommonly high levels of intelligence, creativity,
> imagination and abstract problem solving ablites. Something people who
> are not dyslexic seam to have problems with.
>
> Persional I am rather sorry for people who are not dyslexic, I know if
> wasn't dyslexic I wouldn't have the computer abilities that I do have.
But I have also known dyslexic people who had so much trouble with
things like typing URLs correctly that they could hardly use the
Internet.
I'm impressed that you can program, as even one wrong letter in the name
of a variable will stop things working.
> Just a point of intrest here that dyslexic people don't think in
> letters or numbers they profer pictures. The reasion for this is not
> to well know yet. There are some ideas but no hard facts. Some
> dyslexic have problems with shapes as well.
Probably each dyslexic person has slightly different symptoms.
> I tend to program in bursts (what I call). I can not be there for more
> then half and hour without have to leave the computer. Sometimes it
> way to much for me and have to go and have walk down in local park. I
> love to program, big time. But geting bored at doing rather quickly is
> problem for me. Also walking helps a lot to sorting things out in my
> head. I have found that I have working version of program done before
> someone who doing samething how dosn't gone for a walk. I think this
> walking lark could help anyone out, not just dyslexic people like me.
I don't think this is just a dyslexic thing. I tend to program for about
half an hour and then take a "break" too. But the break is when your
brain is working out the next bit of code.
I also like to print out the code so far and sit down and write all over
it, draw arrows, etc. Some people like to do it all on screen. It
doesn't matter much so long as the thing works in the end.
> Have a go at this before you go to this site. Write an list of
> living/dead people
> who admire and think have made a change to world. The could do
> anything you like. Then have look at that site.
One good example is David Lean, the film director (Lawrence of Arabia,
Great Expectations, etc).
Regards
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