iPod is fascinating from a blind perspective. The two of them work together as though they’ve been doing this for years, even though this is Episode TWO. The episode is entitled “Does Size Matter: iPad versus iPod.” In his most recent show, they did a detailed comparison between the iPad and iPhone from the perspective of blind users. It turns out he’s a friend of Shanes who is also blind, and he does the Tech doctor with his co-host Jenny Axler who is blind as well. This week I got a letter from Doctor Robert Carter telling me about a podcast he does called The Tech Doctor, hosted at and also available in iTunes at a link I put in the shownotes.
Last week we had a great time with Down a Blind Alley with Shane Jackson – I got tons of emails and comments on how much fun Shane is and how much people learn from him. The Tech Doctor by Robert Carter and Jenny Axler Having these discussions of ethics, security, and accessibility will ensure that the students at least think about it when they’re working if it’s reinforced so early in their education. I work for a company that has a safety minute at the beginning of every staff meeting and you can bet it’s in the back of my mind even if I mock the story of the person falling down the stairs during staff, I’m holding onto that handrail now, no question about it. One of the other gentleman on the Advisory Board said that no one will listen to you discuss security until they’ve been bitten personally, but I absolutely disagree. As you’re developing a GUI – what have you done to make sure this is accessible? What standards have you followed to be certain? You’re designing a database – what protections against buffer overflow have been taken? Your program is due Tuesday night at 8pm, but your history paper is due at the same time and you’re offered a copy of a program from a previous year, what do you do? What would be the security implications of using that stolen/borrowed/copied program? I don’t think these should be separate courses, I think they need to be the basis of discussion throughout the course work. That fundamental layer should include a discussion of ethics, security and accessibility. I also suggested that every single class they teach should have a fundamental layer imbedded in the course. Teaching them to be adaptable and understand the basics of structured programming will benefit them more than anything. They could teach them to be Flash Developers, and by the time they get out of school, html5 is the technology of the hour. Since this is a 2 year college which prepares students for University, I feel it’s important to get them used to the idea of changing languages instead of getting stuck in their ways. We talked a lot about languages to teach, and I pushed them to make sure students take a variety of languages, rather than specializing in one language. I wanted to give you a little bit of the advice I gave to the college.
You can imagine what fun I had in this – basically they want me to pontificate along with my peers for a couple of hours. The idea of the Advisory Board is to bring together people from industry with the instructors from the college to help them develop their strategic direction. Participating in this Advisory Board for the last couple of years has given me great appreciation for the quality of Santa Monica College. This week I had the great enjoyment of serving on the advisory board for the Santa Monica College Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department. Today is Sunday May 2nd, 2010 and this is show number 258.
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In Chit Chat Across the Pond we do a bit of follow up on the urgent Adobe PDF security problem and then Bart explains how to go from Auto to Manual on your Digital SLR: bartbusschots.ie/blog.
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In Dumb Question Corner we talk about how to use Twitter without creating an account and I attempt to answer the question of What Problem does the iPad Solve? Matt Rhinsesmith brings us another Twitter client review for Linux, this time it’s Qwit from /p/qwit, and David Allen from Mac 20 Questions reviews Goodreader from and ToDo from Appigo at /todo. My advice to Santa Monica College’s Computer Science Department, and a new podcast called The Tech Doctor from.
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