Typing Practice for Programmers

Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by jacoblambda on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:52PM (#13518500)

Honestly I believe that a programming specific typing practice program such as this one does serve a purpose as even though I can type well in a normal setting, I am much slower with many of the special characters as they just aren't used as much outside of the programming environment.

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Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by manojlds on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:58AM (#13519542)

Actually, this doesn't seem helpful at all. Rarely am I typing the entire program without any autocompletion and intellisense based assists.

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Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by simias on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:06AM (#13519830)

Those generally complete identifiers, not the various symbols like "->" "*" "&" "{" etc... So I think the parent's point is still valid. If anything autocompletion increases the symbol-to-letter typing ratio.

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Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by manojlds on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:04AM (#13521692)

I use snippets, expanders, zen mode etc. Lots of people do too. Typing has never been the issue for programming really.

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