The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand

Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand by _virtu on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:05PM (#12406998)

I'm a big fan of typing new code. My most recent example was while learning Webpack. You could pick from oodles of pre-existing configuration, but it's meaningless if you just copy and paste it in to your editor.

I normally type something out and then if I can't come up with a moderately reasonable assumption about what it does, then I'll pull up the docs and read about it.

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Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand by clifanatic on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:37PM (#12407278)

I find that typing things out by hand organizes my brain to focusing on one thing at a time. If I read over a code snippet, I tend to sort of gloss over it; typing it out slows down the thought process a bit so that I can focus on some of the nuance.

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Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand by username3 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:13PM (#12407590)

Watching presenters type code has the same effect.

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