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Touch typing... I'm embarrassed to confess I'm still typing with just 4 fingers while keeping my eyes on the keyboard instead of the screen. Although I doubt it would require 100 hours to learn.
Do it. You can learn in like 15 minutes a day over a few weeks.
To boost my career I think a deep dive into design patterns / CS algorithms. Could be good for many self taught natural programmers too.
100%. Tons of self taught folks have glaring gaps in their education when it comes to stuff like patterns and algorithms and make weird mistakes because of it.
Maths. Every hundred hours into it is good.
Math Academy would be time well-spent if you haven't mastered their offerings.
125 days in. Almost through Fundamentals II.
Maths. Every hundred hours into it is good.
Touch typing... I'm embarrassed to confess I'm still typing with just 4 fingers while keeping my eyes on the keyboard instead of the screen. Although I doubt it would require 100 hours to learn.
If you're going to learn it, use at least a split columnar keyboard and a non qwerty layout. Learning to touch type on a regular keyboard will likely worsen your health compared to your four finger hunt and peck due to the bad uncomfortable qwerty touch typing enforces. Think about the awful pinky curls and reaches. Ouch!
Is it a whole 100 hours block without fragmentation, or any 100 hours that you can allocate? I assume the first case, i.e. you have about 4 days to learn something. I'd recommend taking up some paid, intensive training as most such trainings take about 3-5 days and you can maximize the learning during the 4 days of timeframe.
Are we talking something like two weeks continuous, or an hour here and there?
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