Typing Practice for Programmers
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Typing Practice for Programmers
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Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#2Coding by typing fast never seems like a great idea for me.
Isn't there a saying "weeks of programming can save hours of planning".
Plus a decent IDE will eliminate the need for this type of thing.
Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#3Coding by typing fast never seems like a great idea for me. Isn't there a saying "weeks of programming can save hours of planning". Plus a decent IDE will eliminate the need for this type of thing.
I will tell you, that if you are in a job interview with a live-coding portion, if you don't type fast, the interviewer will probably think you are dumb.
And if you don't know all the hot keys they know, then they will probably think you are ignorant. It's unfair, but happens.
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#4How about Dvorak Kebyoard support?
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#5This is a really cool idea! But I found myself instinctively hitting [Tab] to activate autocomplete on most of the longer symbols, as every IDE / Code Editor I use supports this in some form.
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#6Coding by typing fast never seems like a great idea for me. Isn't there a saying "weeks of programming can save hours of planning". Plus a decent IDE will eliminate the need for this type of thing.
For me, it's not the fast part that's useful as much as the ability to type braces, square brackets, underscores, = signs, left/right arrowheads without having to look down to locate the key.
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#7Coding by typing fast never seems like a great idea for me. Isn't there a saying "weeks of programming can save hours of planning". Plus a decent IDE will eliminate the need for this type of thing.
I will tell you, that if you are in a job interview with a live-coding portion, if you don't type fast, the interviewer will probably think you are dumb. And if you don't know all the hot keys they know, then they will probably think you are ignorant. It's unfair, but happens.
Their loss.
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#8Who write code that way (linearly)?
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#9I don't know if a programming-specific one is needed but you can save a lot of time learning how to touch-type. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...
Re: Typing Practice for Programmers
#10Coding by typing fast never seems like a great idea for me. Isn't there a saying "weeks of programming can save hours of planning". Plus a decent IDE will eliminate the need for this type of thing.
I will tell you, that if you are in a job interview with a live-coding portion, if you don't type fast, the interviewer will probably think you are dumb. And if you don't know all the hot keys they know, then they will probably think you are ignorant. It's unfair, but happens.
One of the best programmers I know types surprisingly slowly. Maybe because he's older and his fingers just don't move very fast.