Microsoft Corp. is seeking to blind children programming education, and through the development of the project Turin Project Torino, which is a system consists of a programmable large and colorful games called pods language, which can be used to make sounds, stories and poems necessary and songs to teach programming concepts for children with visual impairment. this stems from the growing importance of learning computer science in professional life in this rapidly changing world, and the interest of the company's technical that no one remains lagging behind due to physical challenges and Alaklah.otaatmhor idea of the project about helping children aged seven years and a ten-year-old from in order to be thinking arithmetic familiar to them, and to help teachers who do not have a scientific background in the field of computer science at the children's guide in this Alatjah.oimkn for children to play through games called pods, as well as the possibility to use the application utilities to convert the idea code that was created through the physical system to code written script that serve their projects by connecting the games together to build Br.s..oukalt Microsoft that it worked on the design of the project Turin in collaboration with approximately 12 students a young man in the United Kingdom, and used the reactions that have reached them to get the project to this Almrahlh.oohar Nicolas Villar, a senior researcher at the Cambridge Research Laboratory at the Microsoft "work of the team in the beginning to make all Pods games in white, but shared with children who suffer from limited vision that having more colors will help them, and although the trend is currently within the field of electronics is heading towards making small things as much as possible, but that the children were more interactive with the project when the games become larger volumes ".oaoml organizers of the project to expand the idea later to enable more than 285 million people suffer from eye diseases all over the world to interact better with the programming and computer science and think about arithmetic, and Microsoft Corp. is working with the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom to provide project Turin to 100 children within the pilot test starting this fall.
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