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I finished high school in the late 90s and we learned to touch type on mechanical typewriters for 2 years. I'm not the fastest typist in the world, but it sure

by matt_j 8y ago

I finished high school in the late 90s and we learned to touch type on mechanical typewriters for 2 years. I'm not the fastest typist in the world, but it sure is a skill I've put to use every day of my life. Programming is a little different from typing prose, and intellisense helps if you're using an IDE that supports it, but even then, a few characters > tab > a few more characters > tab, it really helps to be able to hit those keys without looking. If there was one skill I wish I'd learned as a young 'un it's how to use a proper text editor. I was 32 before I used Vim for the first time. I'm getting better at it, slowly, but I wish I'd been exposed when I was younger to give that skill a good decade of exercise.

u801e 8y ago
> I was 32 before I used Vim for the first time. I'm getting better at it, slowly, but I wish I'd been exposed when I was younger to give that skill a good decade of exercise. You'll get there. I switched to CS as a second career in my late 20s and first learned the basics of vim a year later. I'm quite proficient with it now more than a decade later :)