0.2 Master your tools

[eda-waffler]

0.2 Master your tools

Amongst the other assignments, practice mastering your tools.

• [x] Take a baseline test to see how fast you're tying. At a bare minimum you should be able to type 40 WPM by bootcamp.
  • [x] To learn the basics in touch typing and to improve your speeds, try either: Touch Typing Study or TypingClub. OR
  • [x] If you are already an accomplished touch typist, use typing.io and practice typing code, which has a ton of strange symbols.
  • [ ] Try zty.pe, but careful: it's addictive! Time box it!
• [x] Record your typing speed in the waffle comments below.

The end goal is to touch type. Even if you've mastered good speed using your own typing style, you need to be able type WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE KEYBOARD!! Practice touch typing through all coding assignments.

• [x] Practice your Atom shortcuts.
  • https://www.sitepoint.com/12-favorite-atom-tips-and-shortcuts-to-improve-your-workflow/
  • https://gist.github.com/chrissimpkins/5bf5686bae86b8129bee
  • http://blog.bugsnag.com/atom-editor-cheat-sheet
  • https://www.shortcutworld.com/en/linux/Atom-(text-editor)_1.0.html
  • Got a favourite shortcut resource? Tell us and we'll add it!
• [x] Record the new Atom shortcuts you use in the waffle comments below.
• [x] Record all any new terminal commands you used this week in the waffle comments below.
• [x] Make small commits with concise, readable commit messages.

[gabrielamelian]

As mentioned before I have been using Sublime, though we didn't have to do much on the text editor this week because we were doing the exercises from Code Academy on the browser. I guess this helped me to be more conscious of typos and proper syntax which is cool, I had to type everything myself. When I was working on Sublime I used the shortcuts to get the tags such as 'p + TAB' created the

tag and places you in the middle of it, quite cool

[gabrielamelian]

Same case with the command line, I haven't used it much this week, only to create new files touch. I used all the normal stuff for git such as git add -A, git commit -m, git push, git pull

[gabrielamelian]

Typing Speed 46 WPM

Errors 2 mistyped words

Adjusted Speed 44 WPM

[gabrielamelian]

Lesson Summary typeable characters 584 typed characters 627 584 typeable characters

• 15 incorrectly typed
• 4 collaterally typed before backspacing
• 21 backspaces unproductive keystroke overhead 7%
  627 typed characters — 584 typeable characters 584 typeable characters elapsed time 4:25
  wpm 26
  584 typeable characters 5 characters per word × 1 4:25