English to Braille Translator
Braille is a tactile writing system used by the blind and the visually impaired. It is traditionally written with embossed paper. Braille characters are small rectangular blocks, called cells, which contain tiny palpable bumps called raised dots. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another.
We will use a 6-dots Braille alphabet. Each letter can be represented as a 3x2 matrix where 1 is a raised dot and 0 is an empty space.
(Letter W is not original)
Letters should be separated by an empty column. Whitespaces are two empty columns (plus a separator empty column if it is between letters). Various formatting marks indicate the values of the letters that follow them. They have no direct equivalent in print. The most important indicators in English Braille are: "capital" and "number". These marks work as "shift" - only for a follow letter.
We will use several basic punctuation symbols:
You are given a page of text and you should convert it into Braille. The page...
CheckiO Extensions allow you to use local files to solve missions. More info in a blog post.
In order to install CheckiO client you'll need installed Python (version at least 3.8)
Install CheckiO Client first:
pip3 install checkio_client
Configure your tool
checkio --domain=py config --key=
Sync solutions into your local folder
checkio sync
(in beta testing) Launch local server so your browser can use it and sync solution between local file end extension on the fly. (doesn't work for safari)
checkio serv -d
Alternatevly, you can install Chrome extension or FF addon
checkio install-plugin
checkio install-plugin --ff
checkio install-plugin --chromium
Read more here about other functionality that the checkio client provides. Feel free to submit an issue in case of any difficulties.
