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From Deaf to Dev: A Story about a Deaf Person Learns to Code

kyotofu28 on August 02, 2019

For most people,teaching yourself how to code hard. For me,my self-taught journey is a story with some extra spice, because I am deaf. A...
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Truls S. Yggeseth

I am deaf too! Welcome to the programming world. I have done with programming for over ten years and still learning a lot. It took me many years to get a programming job since all that I have done is self-learning and voluntary work. If you have any question, please reach to me! :)

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Quincy Larson

Thanks for sharing your story, Anusha and Truls. It is extra inspiring to me, since you are also doing so much of your self-teaching using the English language.

A big proportion of the developer community is deaf (one of our moderators is deaf and lives not far from me here in Texas). This is something we are conscious of when we make design decisions within freeCodeCamp.

One problem you may have noticed is that our longer YouTube videos don't have subtitles. YouTube won't auto-caption videos that are longer than 4 hours - and most of ours are. We are actively working on a way to get captions on these, but for now we are doing much of this manually.

If you all have any suggestions for how we can make freeCodeCamp more accessible, I would welcome your ideas.

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Anusha Lee

Hi Truls and Quincy,

Thank you very much! Actually, this is Wen's article. I help her revise most part of her writing. As to the caption, MicroSoft Word has a speech recognition or speech to text converter. My Word is Chinese version so I don't know what it exactly called in English. The icon is a microphone. Perhaps this will solve the issue. youtube.com/watch?v=qqEUVbDmYgc Here's the video about the setup.

Anusha

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Anusha Thank your help!šŸ˜„

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kyotofu28

Thank youšŸ˜ƒThis is me really never thought that someone leave a message,this is big surprise.Yes,YouTube no subtitles are a lot of trouble,if you can segment 1/2/3 maybe there subtitles to watch.

I wish Freecodecamp YouTube can teach about how to step by step build App,currently I'm read React,let me know what is React and any element,still not yet try build small App.

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kyotofu28

Thank you!No problem!How do you communication with your colleague or your team?šŸ‘€

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Roslan Saidi

You're not alone. I'm half-deaf coder. :D Keep it up!

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Roslan Saidi

Half-death? Seriously? šŸ¤”

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kyotofu28

wow,Deaf there are innate and acquired,you may be the acquired.

Do you will use sign language? Or speak??šŸ˜¬

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kyotofu28

Good,I'm happy know myself isn't alone.šŸ˜Š

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Kristijan KanalaÅ”

It's really a touching story, I sincerely hope for your success. I'm not sure what field you're studying but I am open to helping you somehow, so feel free to contact me here or on twitter @Kristijan994 if you need help.

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kyotofu28

Thank you!I'm still in the React learning now.šŸ˜„

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Emma Goto šŸ™

Good luck!

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kyotofu28

Thank you!šŸ˜ƒ

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Giorgio Bertolotti

I wish you the best luck! šŸ˜šŸ’Ŗ

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kyotofu28

Thank you very much!šŸ˜„

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C. Pure

Great article Wen and best of luck! Iā€™m cheering for you šŸ¤—āœØ