Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
by kamaal on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:41PM
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Touch typing is a bit like knowing where the accelerator, break pedal and gear stick is. Its like knowing the layout of notes on a musical instrument.
Sure you can look down and see where they are. But its just that your brain on enough practice has mapped your fingers to the pattern of what you wish to do. There is very little memory involved in all this exercise.
The bad part about not having this kind of muscle memory is you have will have a whole lot of unnecessary overhead of working out things by sight and coordinating it with hand movements, which is very distracting when you have something requiring very high focus to do on hand. Especially in things like music, timing is everything. Working out things by sight is a straight no-go to even start with.
IDE makes it easy for you to work with complex navigation patterns, whether its bugs or understanding some part of your code or debugging. IDE is a tool designed to make that workflow easy for you. Its not a tool designed to make typing easy. And using tools like to these to avoid learning typing, makes it more hard in situations when you can't find your way out without typing.
Sure you can look down and see where they are. But its just that your brain on enough practice has mapped your fingers to the pattern of what you wish to do. There is very little memory involved in all this exercise.
The bad part about not having this kind of muscle memory is you have will have a whole lot of unnecessary overhead of working out things by sight and coordinating it with hand movements, which is very distracting when you have something requiring very high focus to do on hand. Especially in things like music, timing is everything. Working out things by sight is a straight no-go to even start with.
IDE makes it easy for you to work with complex navigation patterns, whether its bugs or understanding some part of your code or debugging. IDE is a tool designed to make that workflow easy for you. Its not a tool designed to make typing easy. And using tools like to these to avoid learning typing, makes it more hard in situations when you can't find your way out without typing.