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Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by amirmansour » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

This is awesome. Finished the 1st Scala lesson and I really liked the end of the lesson summary. I got to make some improvements :)

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#12

Post by agscala » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:29 PM UTC

I wish this had a timer on it. I don't know which metric it would result in, but it would be fun to race against other people nonetheless

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#13

Post by tsahyt » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

moonboots wrote: post #5

tobr wrote: post #4

Fun idea, but doesn't seem to recognize non-US keyboard layouts.

Thanks for the bug report. The next update will fix international keyboard layouts once I figure out the mess that is cross-browser, cross-language javascript key event handling:)

Same here on a german keyboard layout (Linux & Firefox 14.0.1). It works well until I reach a special key, which kind of spoils the whole thing.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#14

Post by agscala » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

moonboots wrote: post #5

tobr wrote: post #4

Fun idea, but doesn't seem to recognize non-US keyboard layouts.

Thanks for the bug report. The next update will fix international keyboard layouts once I figure out the mess that is cross-browser, cross-language javascript key event handling:)

Possibly one of these will be useful:

https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster

https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#15

Post by nicholassmith » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:37 PM UTC

Ah this is awesome, we've had a few similar stuff appear recently but this is exactly what I was after.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#16

Post by nicholassmith » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:43 PM UTC

I honestly didn't mean to break it! It does seem however under Safari OS X it doesn't like alt + 3 for hash, which for the C++ ones is a big thing.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#17

Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:43 PM UTC

agscala wrote: post #14

moonboots wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the bug report. The next update will fix international keyboard layouts once I figure out the mess that is cross-browser, cross-language javascript key event handling:)

Possibly one of these will be useful: https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap

Thanks for the js library recommendations. I've taken a look at keymaster, and it's mostly focused around modifier keys used in shortcuts. I'm currently using google closure library, but I will need to add more key recognition and failsafes in case there is a unrecognized keyboard layout.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by newtonapple » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

I made something similar except you can practice using any Gist you want. http://newtonapple.github.com/Gistype/#1 It still needs some work on the current cursor movement for longer Gists, but the basic functionality is there. No login required, just type. :) Note that if you have Vimium installed, you'll have to put the URL on your "excluded URLs" list.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

nicholassmith wrote: post #16

I honestly didn't mean to break it! It does seem however under Safari OS X it doesn't like alt + 3 for hash, which for the C++ ones is a big thing.

Thanks for the bug report. I'll look into what's happening with your key inputs on Safari.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

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Post by tobiasu » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:56 PM UTC

Well done on the NoScript front. It's rare to see a site on HN that requires JS and falls back to a nice explanation of why it needs JS (Instead of just stating the fact, or worse, displaying a white page).