I broke my hand in an auto accident a few years ago while majoring in computer science. That semester I had 3 programming-heavy courses, and couldn't afford to skip a semester.
I tried to find someone to program for me (for payment), but, even with a cs student is didn't work well enough to be productive (you just can't tolerate the continuous spelling correction delays.
I looked into Dragon Naturally speaking, but at the time (1997) there was no way it would understand the syntax of a programming language. Unless things have changed a lot since then (which i doubt they have), you can still forget that.
Ultimately I gave up trying to find a solution and just bucked up and programmed with one hand on a regular keyboard. The biggest slowdown was the shift key (needed for mixed-case variable names, etc.). However, even with that, I still managed to finish all courses with A's.
The insurance company even upped my payout amout for pain and suffering (the accident was the other guy's fault).
In retrospect I probably could have gotten away without mixed case had I explained the situation to my teachers. All lowercase may work for you, too. That would significantly speed up your programming.
I would not recommend Oddpost. First off it is a web-based solution. More importantly, however, is that they themselves "spam" you with pop-up boxes when you go to their site. Just try going there using IE with JavaScript on and "Script ActiveX Controls Marked as safe" disabled. They pop up this really annoying message that's just like the one M$FT puts in IE to bug you to turn on your ActiveX.
Anyone that purposefully annoys me doesn't get the concept of blocking spam. And most any site that requires an ActiveX control shouldn't be trusted.
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I broke my hand in an auto accident a few years ago while majoring in computer science. That semester I had 3 programming-heavy courses, and couldn't afford to skip a semester. I tried to find someone to program for me (for payment), but, even with a cs student is didn't work well enough to be productive (you just can't tolerate the continuous spelling correction delays. I looked into Dragon Naturally speaking, but at the time (1997) there was no way it would understand the syntax of a programming language. Unless things have changed a lot since then (which i doubt they have), you can still forget that. Ultimately I gave up trying to find a solution and just bucked up and programmed with one hand on a regular keyboard. The biggest slowdown was the shift key (needed for mixed-case variable names, etc.). However, even with that, I still managed to finish all courses with A's. The insurance company even upped my payout amout for pain and suffering (the accident was the other guy's fault). In retrospect I probably could have gotten away without mixed case had I explained the situation to my teachers. All lowercase may work for you, too. That would significantly speed up your programming.
Why use a search engine that is known to closely mix $-manipulated results with "real" results?
I would not recommend Oddpost. First off it is a web-based solution. More importantly, however, is that they themselves "spam" you with pop-up boxes when you go to their site. Just try going there using IE with JavaScript on and "Script ActiveX Controls Marked as safe" disabled. They pop up this really annoying message that's just like the one M$FT puts in IE to bug you to turn on your ActiveX. Anyone that purposefully annoys me doesn't get the concept of blocking spam. And most any site that requires an ActiveX control shouldn't be trusted.