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Do people honestly not know how to type by the time they become programmers? I've used a computer since I was 5 years old. I can type without looking. (I'm slo
by kilroy123 10y ago
Do people honestly not know how to type by the time they become programmers?
I've used a computer since I was 5 years old. I can type without looking. (I'm sloppy as hell though, since I was self-taught.)
But everyone I know types without looking.
- tracker1 10y agoThis is precisely why, to this day, I hate all laptop keyboards... the feel, and spacing is just so different, it's hard to get used to. I'm typing this on a Unicomp 103-key modem-m style keyboard... spacing is closer to original vs 104-key. Can't express how much better it feels. At work, I'm using a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches, to be (slightly) less annoying, but it's still a very different feel to it. These days, my only pain points are that getting natural scrolling outside of a mac is difficult (windows wants to keep resetting it back) and ubuntu removed it from the options, and it doesn't always work. And the ctrl/cmd characters on mac feel wierd... I've got cmd in lower-left and cmd at alt position, but in a console it's of course backwards in terms of muscle memory. And in mac home/end don't work as expected. Not sure where I carried off into a hardware rant... but all the same, what you touch and look at are surprisingly important.
- vaibhavsagar 10y agoI've used a computer since I was about 5 too, and I learned how to type after I got my first job as a programmer. We're out there!