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> [O] some people say that typing speed doesn't matter, because the slow part is thinking about the code. Those people are wrong. Care to elaborate? There are
by sdevonoes 4y ago
> [O] some people say that typing speed doesn't matter, because the slow part is thinking about the code. Those people are wrong.
Care to elaborate? There are people who cannot type (like physically) and yet they are programmers. Also, programming is all about mental gymnastics. Only accidentally (we are in the year 2022) we need to take our hands out of our pockets and type our solutions in an editor.
- elviejo 4y agoThe elaboration is on the second link: "We are typists first, programmers second" https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programme... By Jeff Atwood, cofounder of stackoverflow.