Add to touch typing section

YvesMuyaBenda commented 6 years ago

User Story: As someone starting, I find it difficult to invest the effort to learn touch-typing, when I can easily copy and paste code or even hunt and peck. I need more information to convince me not to form bad habits, that will be difficult to correct later on.

User Story: As someone starting, I have learned to touch type all the letter, numbers. punctuation and other symbols on the keyboard, but I do not grasp the how and why I can carry on this basic skill into learning programming.

I propose we add two pieces of information to the end of the touch typing section:

Advice based on using example code that a learner will find in their resources for typing practice (i.e HTML quickly shows you how comfortable you are with right and left angle brackets, and each language has its own unique key combinations)
Articles that speak of the importance of typing code by hand with learning how to code. Not only will this motivate the reader to learn to touch type properly in the first place, but it will allow them to easily observe how the skill is continually used in their adventure in learning to code!

nelsonic commented 6 years ago

@YvesMuyaBenda this is something I will be paying particular attention to in the next few weeks... 😉

YvesMuyaBenda commented 6 years ago

@nelsonic I just did a quick google search on the semantics of the epic tag, and was wondering if you would like me to divide this into two smaller issues? I was going to do this in two rather short , easily read commits, since I did not want to needlessly ping folk for reviews.

nelsonic commented 6 years ago

@YvesMuyaBenda yeah, the reason I consider this an epic is because I want to dedicate time to build a touch-typing-tutorial 😮 😉 But for the purpose of simply updating the start-here readme, we can remove the epic label. 👍

nelsonic commented 6 years ago

@YvesMuyaBenda both a README and an Open Source Elm App to teach people of all ages how to touch-type ... But I don't expect to start on this "mini-project" for another month. So in the meantime, please go ahead and update the readme. I'd be keen to see your research on the subject. 🤔 thanks! 👍

YvesMuyaBenda commented 6 years ago

@nelsonic Sorry, I deleted my post for its lack of succinctness and clarity. The original question: are you building a README or an app?

Sure, the main thought was to connect touch typing into learning how to program, which was going to be a set-up to a " Learn How to Learn" section.

nelsonic commented 6 years ago

"Coming soon": https://github.com/nelsonic/learn-touch-typing 😉

YvesMuyaBenda commented 6 years ago

@nelsonic The sticking point for applying it to programming is the symbols; for the alphabet and already knowing how to type them, the experience at keybr is pretty magical and addictive. I can often hit 90 wpm, but I struggle to hit 100 wpm consistently, but there you go, typing out messages on Github becomes so nice and fluent, like I have grease in my knuckles!

Okay, I will add to the the section on touch typing tomorrow.

YvesMuyaBenda commented 6 years ago

Nah, might as well just write right now!

dwyl / start-here

Add to touch typing section #156