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If you're a camera, a 3D camera[br]and you're looking at her, and she's

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pointing in that direction. The question [br]is What do you call 'x'

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What do you call 'Y' and [br]what do you call 'z'.

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I would want to take all of the knowledge [br]that I've learned through out this camp.

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Using Quorum and maybe develop my [br]own game. Maybe later down the line.

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I really want to teach others. [br]That's sort of what I like to do.

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And with Quorum I can [br]do that much easier.

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Technology jobs are in demand.

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And an understanding of computing and [br]coding are important for anyone pursuing

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these opportunities. But learning[br]programming languages can be difficult for

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any new student, including [br]some students with disabilities.

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That's why Quorum was created.

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My name is Andreas Stefik. [br]I am an assistant

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professor of Computer Science at The [br]University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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I invented the Quorum programming[br]language, at first, then my wife and I

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actually created several [br]versions of it together.

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It was originally designed to help blind [br]and visually impaired students learn to

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program more easily.

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The reason was because at the time [br]a lot of computer science

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was moving toward [br]a very visual content.

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And that in general makes a lot of sense,[br]however, not if you're blind.[br]

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I'm Richard Ladner, [br]professor in computer

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Science and engineering at the[br]University of Washington.

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So you really need similar code [br]to what you have there already.

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Children who are blind, who can't see[br]can actually program in Quorum.

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And make things that talk, [br]or have sound or have music.

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So they're not [br]always so visual.

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If you look at almost all[br]the tools that are out there

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for children, they're all[br]super visual.

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And this one is visual and auditory.

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So that makes it much better for every[br]body.

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I am Lauren Milne, I'm a graduate student

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at University of Washington [br]in Computer Science.

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I work with Richard Ladner [br]and I do a lot of research

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in programming languages[br]specifically for blind students.

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It has full support for [br]screen readers and braille displays

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and it has a lot of features, [br]it's very easy to incorporate

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audio in programs and a lot [br]of things that you can play

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around with in audio [br]so it means you can

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make really accessible,[br]you know, you can

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quickly and easily [br]make accessible games

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or whatever you'd [br]like using Quorum.

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Quorum's features are [br]universally designed

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Making it an easier language [br]to learn, in general.

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One of the reasons [br]why Quorum is easier

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in some cases, for people [br]to learn and grasp,

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is because the language is simpler.

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Which impacts people [br]with learning disabilities.

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For example, if I were [br]to tell the computer

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to do something over and over again,

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in a language like Java, I would say[br](language on screen)

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Which obviously means that we should do

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something 10 times. In Quorum,[br]I say repeat 10 times.

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I find, personally, [br]reading Quorum programs

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a lot easier than reading [br]C programs or

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Java programs.

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I can understand them more easily [br]and so I feel like there's some major

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advantages from the get go.[br]Just that simple elegance.

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Most languages, [br]after every single line

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you have to put a semi colon.

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Why do you have to put a semi colon?

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It seems to be just tradition. [br]It doesn't need to be there.

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And Quorum has no semi colons.

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They hypothesized that it [br]would be really good

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for certain students [br]with learning disabilities.

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Quorum doesn't use braces, [br]it uses indentation

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and it uses keywords instead [br]to indicate the end of loops.

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I want you to type [br]the word model,

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and then I want you [br]to type the word box.

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Now there's a red underline here [br]because we haven't added.

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Over the years, [br]Quorum has gained popularity.

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I'm Dominic and I'm really into computers,

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and really enjoy using Quorum, and have

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used other computer programs [br]before like C++ and Java.

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One of the things that stands out [br]to me in Quorum is the punctuation.

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And it's like really easy because you [br]don't have to add in all the semi colons

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and all the annoying like #'s and @[br]symbols and everything.

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You just use words basically, [br]which is way easier than using

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all those confusing symbols [br]and I think that makes it

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easier for me to program [br]in Quorum than in other languages.

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Hi, I'm Alyssa. [br]What makes Quorum easier

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is the way they wrote, [br]the way they program

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for us to write the code.

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So we don't have to add [br]semi colons and brackets and

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paranthesis and all this stuff.

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They made it easier. [br]You can just type in a

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word "output" lets say for example and[br]then you can write in quotes

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whatever you want [br]the computer to say.

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And that's what makes it [br]a lot more unique than other

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programming languages like Java.

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I'm Mary. You can do[br]a lot more things in

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Quorum with less lines [br]of code than in

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some other things that I've used before.

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Quorum is evidence based. [br]Using the results of

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Scientific experiments to [br]determine how to make

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the language easier to use.

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Quorum provides two primary benefits.[br]One is everything is free.

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And then number two,[br]at the end of the day,

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all of the materials that [br]we use and that we give

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to people are vetted [br]both by teachers and

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students and are [br]vetted in experiments

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through the scientific method.

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The result is a programming language

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that is creating a more [br]inviting environment

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for computing students.

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A lot of people, [br]I have seen this

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in intro classes that I've taught, [br]they come in and they get

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really intimidated when [br]they start programming.

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There's all sorts of bugs, [br]and it can be very frustrating.

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People drop out, and very often [br]the only people who stick around

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are people who come into a [br]college course with previous

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programming experience.

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Anything that lowers that initial entry [br]is going to bring a lot more people,

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a lot more diversity because of that.