I found it hugely annoying that I couldn't just start, that I had to press "Enter" first. I don't know why that is necessary and I wish the author didn't force us to do this. Otherwise, very nice job.
Practice typing for Code
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#12I just learned that I am such a sloppy coder since I hit semicolon with my index finger apparanlty, and my right hand only uses my thumb, index, and middle finger.
No wonder I can never hit the semicolon or parens/braces/brackets. I use my index finger...
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#13There is also no unique URL for the particular exercise. If the author can create hashes for that. I will be really helpful and we can share them too.
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#14I found it hugely annoying that I couldn't just start, that I had to press "Enter" first. I don't know why that is necessary and I wish the author didn't force us to do this. Otherwise, very nice job.
We will be adding an Options panel soon, and we'll make it possible to opt for this. Thanks!
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#15I just learned that I am such a sloppy coder since I hit semicolon with my index finger apparanlty, and my right hand only uses my thumb, index, and middle finger. No wonder I can never hit the semicolon or parens/braces/brackets. I use my index finger...
I noticed I did something similar for parentheses - I move my entire hand right so that my pinky rests on right-shift and then I press 9 or 0 with my middle finger. I should of course instead by pressing shift with my left hand's little finger, but I often find that pressing shift with one hand for one half of the keyboard and with the other hand for the other half is a little bit awkward for me... Maybe I'll get a kinesis contoured with foot pedal for shift some day :D
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#16The code typing sections is cool, but unfortunately not representative of the way anybody codes. I could probably code up any of these examples much faster in vim than having them dictated to me. Plus, code is not written linearly, it is modled / shaped into form.
We tried to make it like a code editor that only has auto indentation. Thanks for your suggestions, we'll look into how we could improve this.
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#17There is also no unique URL for the particular exercise. If the author can create hashes for that. I will be really helpful and we can share them too.
Permalinks for lessons sounds good. Thanks!
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#18I found it hugely annoying that I couldn't just start, that I had to press "Enter" first. I don't know why that is necessary and I wish the author didn't force us to do this. Otherwise, very nice job.
It kind of makes sense. It makes the timing more accurate by preventing late starts caused by different people starting typing at different times.
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#19The code typing sections is cool, but unfortunately not representative of the way anybody codes. I could probably code up any of these examples much faster in vim than having them dictated to me. Plus, code is not written linearly, it is modled / shaped into form.
We tried to make it like a code editor that only has auto indentation. Thanks for your suggestions, we'll look into how we could improve this.
A vi editor mode would be sweet!
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#20looks quite interesting, but it appears that there is no way to switch the keyboard layout, that not easy to 'see' the key they highlight, and press it somewhere else!
Yeah, only QWERTY is implemented as yet. Do you mean that the highlight color of the key is not noticeable?