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

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

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What do you call 'Y' and 
what do you call 'z'.

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

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

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

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And with Quorum I can 
do that much easier.

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Technology jobs are in demand.

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

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these opportunities. But learning
programming languages can be difficult for

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any new student, including 
some students with disabilities.

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That's why Quorum was created.

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My name is Andreas Stefik. 
I am an assistant

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professor of Computer Science at The 
University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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

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actually created several 
versions of it together.

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

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program more easily.

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

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was moving toward 
a very visual content.

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


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I'm Richard Ladner, 
professor in computer

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Science and engineering at the
University of Washington.

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

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

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And make things that talk, 
or have sound or have music.

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So they're not 
always so visual.

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

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for children, they're all
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
body.

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I am Lauren Milne, I'm a graduate student

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at University of Washington 
in Computer Science.

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I work with Richard Ladner 
and I do a lot of research

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in programming languages
specifically for blind students.

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It has full support for 
screen readers and braille displays

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

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

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around with in audio 
so it means you can

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make really accessible,
you know, you can

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quickly and easily 
make accessible games

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or whatever you'd 
like using Quorum.

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Quorum's features are 
universally designed

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Making it an easier language 
to learn, in general.

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One of the reasons 
why Quorum is easier

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in some cases, for people 
to learn and grasp,

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is because the language is simpler.

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Which impacts people 
with learning disabilities.

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For example, if I were 
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
(language on screen)

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Which obviously means that we should do

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something 10 times. In Quorum,
I say repeat 10 times.

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I find, personally, 
reading Quorum programs

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a lot easier than reading 
C programs or

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Java programs.

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

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advantages from the get go.
Just that simple elegance.

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Most languages, 
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. 
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 
would be really good

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for certain students 
with learning disabilities.

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Quorum doesn't use braces, 
it uses indentation

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

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I want you to type 
the word model,

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and then I want you 
to type the word box.

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

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Over the years, 
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 
before like C++ and Java.

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

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

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

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

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all those confusing symbols 
and I think that makes it

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easier for me to program 
in Quorum than in other languages.

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Hi, I'm Alyssa. 
What makes Quorum easier

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is the way they wrote, 
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 
semi colons and brackets and

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paranthesis and all this stuff.

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They made it easier. 
You can just type in a

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

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whatever you want 
the computer to say.

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

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programming languages like Java.

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

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Quorum with less lines 
of code than in

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some other things that I've used before.

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Quorum is evidence based. 
Using the results of

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Scientific experiments to 
determine how to make

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the language easier to use.

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Quorum provides two primary benefits.
One is everything is free.

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And then number two,
at the end of the day,

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all of the materials that 
we use and that we give

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to people are vetted 
both by teachers and

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students and are 
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 
inviting environment

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for computing students.

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A lot of people, 
I have seen this

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

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really intimidated when 
they start programming.

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

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

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are people who come into a 
college course with previous

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programming experience.

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

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a lot more diversity because of that.