Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

it'd be interesting to see these heatmaps in some sort of normalized way. for example, 'e' is the most common letter in english, so its the most commonly used letter in these programming languages. it'd be very interesting to see, for example, this heatmap with the intensities divided by each letter's frequency of use in the English language, or across a large set of data including a lot of different programming languages

Re: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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Post by zyb09 » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

Clearly ObjC programmers are the only ones, who comment their code responsibly.

Re: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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Post by wccrawford » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

andylei wrote: post #5

it'd be interesting to see these heatmaps in some sort of normalized way. for example, 'e' is the most common letter in english, so its the most commonly used letter in these programming languages. it'd be very interesting to see, for example, this heatmap with the intensities divided by each letter's frequency of use in the English language, or across a large set of data including a lot of different programming lang…

For this reason, I think it would have been more interesting to ignore the alphabet keys and just heatmap the rest.

Re: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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Post by saintfiends » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 1:59 PM UTC

This just graphically displays what I whine about most of the time. Why does my pinky has to do most the work? My pinky is pretty short and all the pinky movements are awkward. It considerably slows down my code typing speed.

I wonder If there would be another keyboard layout specially made for programmers. If you look at it you'll see that most of it has a similar pattern.

Re: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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Post by quellhorst » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

Would like to see a Dvorak version of this.

Re: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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Post by egiva » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

doki_pen wrote: post #3

I'd love to see a keyboard layout based on data like this.

It already exists in terms of a more logical layout for faster typing of many latin-based languages. Instead of QUERTY keyboard, it's called the Dvorak layout and is really common in certain circles and places - I believe that in OS X you can switch to this alternative layout pretty easily if you're interested in learning a faster way of typing. More info here: http://atmac.org/dvorak-keyboard-layout-switching