Typing Practice for Programmers

#1

Post by mofeeta » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 7:12 PM UTC

Typing Practice for Programmers
typing.io

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#2

Post by munaf » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:15 PM UTC

Cool? Still haven't decided if it's useful.

Anyway, the cursor occasionally obscures the character and slows you down. Might be worth testing out a fish-eye effect as the cursor scrolls so you clearly know what you need to type.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#3

Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

munaf wrote: post #2

Cool? Still haven't decided if it's useful. Anyway, the cursor occasionally obscures the character and slows you down. Might be worth testing out a fish-eye effect as the cursor scrolls so you clearly know what you need to type.

Author here, thanks for the feedback. Do you mean the backspace cursor that appears after the user typed a character incorrectly?

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#4

Post by tobr » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:18 PM UTC

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

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#5

Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

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:)

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#6

Post by sp332 » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC

FF 16/Win7, I don't seem to be able to type underscores '_' at all.

ETA: looks fine in Chrome though, and I really like this idea :)

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#7

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

sp332 wrote: post #6

FF 16/Win7, I don't seem to be able to type underscores '_' at all. ETA: looks fine in Chrome though, and I really like this idea :)

Thanks, will take a look into this

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#8

Post by rince » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:23 PM UTC

If anything, this site shows the importance of autocomplete

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#9

Post by slmbrhrt » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:25 PM UTC

moonboots wrote: post #7

sp332 wrote: post #6

FF 16/Win7, I don't seem to be able to type underscores '_' at all. ETA: looks fine in Chrome though, and I really like this idea :)

Thanks, will take a look into this

P|pes in OS X on Firefox, too.

Re: Typing Practice for Programmers

#10

Post by moonboots » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

rince wrote: post #8

If anything, this site shows the importance of autocomplete

Autocompletion is an important tool along side typing proficiency. Most of the autocomplete I've used only covers alphanumericVariableNames, so you still have to type the hard-to-reach symbol keys.