I use textmate, and or terminal. You can straight up type python3 into terminal (assuming thats the version you have) and go to town writing code. Or, write in textmate, then type python whatever.py into terminal and run it there. I may have gotten some details wrong but I mainly use java via node.js so I'm not as familiar with python as I am java.

I used Learn How To Code The Hard Way and did my best to work through that terse training and started building games. I then helped Codecademy fix some of their accessibility issues and went through their Python 3 course and refreshed a lot of knowledge.

As for workflow, I have a coding VoiceOver activity set that has TextEdit read out all punctuation and reads out the amount of tabs I have for indentation. I code in TextEdit and run and test everything through Terminal or iTerm. Sometimes I will code in Xcode just for the code editing tools, but for most of what I've made, TextEdit was perfectly fine.

Also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlindDevelopers/

I’d start with a web-based tool for initial python learning. Even Google Collab is nice since you dont have to install an IDE compiler or local libraries.

Another option for an accessible text editor that supports auto-indent is Smultron, which I personally prefered on a Mac in combination with the terminal for running the python interpreter. VSCode works as far as I'm concerned, but suffers a bit from the lack of browse/focus mode in VoiceOver and becomes quite verbose for what you might need to use when starting out, but that is personal preference.


As for materials, Think Python by Allan Downey comes to mind (the python 3 edition):
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Good luck :)

I would think the most accessible editor for Python will be a toss-up between textMate and Visual Studio Code.

The main thing you have to be aware of in either editor is the fact that VoiceOver doesn't really natively support reporting line indentation, so unless you are using braille, you will have trouble doing this.

Python relies on indentation to indicate various things in the code, so you'll need some way to fix this.

In VS Code, there's an extension developed by a blind person that does this: $1

For other editors , there is a really recent project created by two blind developers that does a similar things for mac-wide:

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As for accessible ways to learn it, really any text-based tutorial that pertains to Python 3, which should be anything relatively recent, should work just fine.

Learn Python the Hard Way comes to mind, but NoStarchPress has a bunch of python books as well that are perfectly usable.

vscode is generally accessible on macOS, but I don't like it because its far too verbose for my liking. I recommend using Textmate, which isn't a full IDE, but gets the job done.

For learning resources, I recommend some of the scholar courses from MIT OCW. Specifically, check out "an introduction to computer programing".

Maybe something like a Amazon echo dot or a Google HomePod or an Apple HomePod or depending on the extent of her vision LED light strips