Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
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Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
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Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#2If you make a typo in a command and try to backspace it marks it as wrong, gives you the next, and potentially marks several as wrong until you notice that you can't backspace.
Is that intentional?
Otherwise, had a very quick play and it's nicely produced, but I can't assess its efficacy just now. Have bookmarked - looks interesting.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#3I'm getting boxes for alt and control instead of a character. Windows 8 x64, Chrome version 29.0.1521.3 dev-m
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#4I would think one would be better off learning how to use one of the Spaced Repetition applications like Anki, Supermemo, etc. Then you could learn editor shortcuts, programming language syntax and semantics, tool and application commands, and anything else you want to that fits into the flashcard model of instruction.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#5I've had an account for a while and it definitely has helped my Vim-foo, one of the few little cutesy services I've actually paid money for. It's somewhat relaxing and the fact that it's not some kind of monthly payment pulled me in. The database of shortcuts grows all the time as well. If you are considering trying it out I recommend it.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#6Well done. Reminds me a lot of when I was learning to touch type(I think it was called Typing Tutor). I'm going to pay at least for the smallest plan.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#7I've had an account for a while and it definitely has helped my Vim-foo, one of the few little cutesy services I've actually paid money for. It's somewhat relaxing and the fact that it's not some kind of monthly payment pulled me in. The database of shortcuts grows all the time as well. If you are considering trying it out I recommend it.
I was just thinking the exact opposite. I am really not convinced that the site can be maintained indefinitely for a $15 one-off payment per user. And when it inevitably closes down I will feel cheated out of the "lifetime" of service I paid my $15 for, whereas I would have been happy to pay $60 a year for it. ($5/month would also ring alarm bells for me, even though the total price would be the same.)
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#8I'm having a problem with not overriding the browser shortcuts. One of the shortcuts I'm supposed to be learning is shift-ctrl-T, but when I type that in a plugin window opens instead (in this case LastPass). And ctrl-U (soft undo in sublime text) sometimes opens view source.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#9I'm using Anki (http://ankisrs.net/) which is a similar system (spaced-repetition/flashcards). I'm using the "fat" client, although it syncs to all my desktops. I only have one "deck" at the moment (vim) and am building it up. I think it is helping me a lot.
Re: Show HN: Learn Your Favorite Editor With Spaced Repetition
#10An unsolicited endorsement: I switched from TextMate to vim/tmux in February, and shortcutfoo.com cut my vim curve down by many weeks. Later I also started using it for git, even though I've been on git for years, and already have several new git tricks I didn't know before. I've been recommending it ever since -- great service guys!
It's like a tools kata for my fingers. I run a few reps most mornings just to get warmed up.