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Sites or Software for a Budding Typist?

Posted by Cliff on from the hunt-and-peck-has-gotten-boring dept.

less touch, more typing asks: "Over the years I have worked with a number of IT professionals and software developers. Many of them have had excellent typing skills. Others, like me, have not. While I type passably with my own roguish style of finding the right keys, I would like to teach myself to type correctly. Too many syntax errors over the years are do to my lack of this basic skill. What software or web site would you recommend to learn to type? Is there something free or inexpensive that can turn someone with a lot of bad typing habits into a typing guru?"

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  1. Coding does not require typing by The+Slashdolt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you're typing out full words while coding then you're doing something wrong. Any modern IDE has the ability to do code completion. Its just like using tab-complete in a bash shell. Type a letter, then ctrl+space or whatever your IDE uses and it will either provide a list of options or autocomplete your word if there is only one option. Additionally, most IDE's will close braces, paranthesis and do other nice things for you. You can make code templates so a ctrl+j inserts a for loop for you. Once these things become second nature to you your productivity will soar. Code smarter, not typing faster!

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  2. Re:Mavis Beacon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    "I will deliver Ohio for President Bush"---Michael Dell

    Dumbass

    How tipical of the bitter to concoct a conspiracy while ignoring history:
    No Republican president has EVER won the Whitehouse without winning Ohio.
    That said, it's no wonder an unequal amount test markets are to be found in Columbus, Ohio.
    It's no wonder their licence plate has had "The Heart of it All" printed across it.
    If one wants to find out what's going on in the nation, all they need to do is to stick a proverbial wet finger in the air in the city limits of Columbus, Ohio.

    So, with these tid-bits of history, facts, and one conjecture, perhaps you'll not impute Michael Dell with so much power as to sway/control/manipulate the vote of a whole state, namely Ohio, which has mostly voted Republican for years, if not decades. Perhaps you should read how difficult it was for Linden Johnson to steal the 1948 Texas Senate election as told by Barr McClellan in "Blood, Money & Power"

    You dumbass.