It is not my university education that makes my living. Its touch-typing skill.
The Joy of Typing
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Re: The Joy of Typing
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Those students who are trying to transcribe lectures and not actually learning anything? My guess is it's because they're burning cycles mentally saying "'the', I need to find 't' and an 'h', aaaaaand 'e'. 'quick', where the hell is 'q'?" I wouldn't be so sure. I can write and type just fine, but I always learned better in class by listening to the teacher instead of trying to produce a pile of notes. All of the kid…
One can listen and take notes at the same time. I found that taking notes helped a lot, even though I hardly ever to never reviewed them later. But it helped to strengthen what I was listening to. The simple takeaway is that different people learn differently. Don't assume what works for you will work for others and vice versa.
I wasn't really trying to judge anyone's preferred method of learning (though I see how I came off that way), just arguing that the "guy who takes tons of notes but learns very little" phenomenon has nothing to do with typing skills. I had a few people in mind from my school days who would practically transcribe each lecture, producing pages of minutes and never putting their pen down for a moment, yet understand less by the end than the stoner in the back who slept through half of it.
Re: The Joy of Typing
#93Great content. It's a pity that author didn't mention that average typing speed for adults - 41 wpm according to infographic at http://www.ratatype.com/learn/average-typing-speed/
Re: The Joy of Typing
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> resulting in less time typing and improved legibility ...and more time correcting the text that the IDE autocompleted wrongly.
What experience are you basing that on? That has never happened to me. It shows you what it's going to put in before it puts it in and gives you a drop-down menu.
Well, that's correcting the choice, only before its applied, what has little impact on how much attention the IDE grabs from you.
I've had both before and after application errors, on different IDEs and different codebases (some sets of names change the probability distribution). But Visual Studio seems to be the worst ofender, stealing not only the up and down arrows for navigation, but also open parentesis, space, enter, period, and colon, for application... and I'm sure I forgot some keys.