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I can see that - it's like musicians that don't rate musicians who can't play piano. But - I guess I've seen a few counter-examples in coding - e.g. I used to
by jwilliams 18y ago
I can see that - it's like musicians that don't rate musicians who can't play piano.
But - I guess I've seen a few counter-examples in coding - e.g. I used to know a mainframe guy who had arthritic pain. He coded very slowly indeed, but it flowed out of him flawlessly.... So I tend not to have that bias.
If I met someone who wanted to get into programming, I certainly wouldn't say "practice your typing" - I'd say, "read these books".
- jamesgolick 18y agoI probably wouldn't tell somebody to go practice typing either, but that's not because it isn't important. I would just take it for granted that they could already type.
- comatose_kid 18y agoActually, I'd say 'read these books' and 'learn to type'. Half of development is communication - writing emails, comments, docs, whatever. Why wouldn't one benefit from entering text more quickly? Anyways, there are probably a subset of slow typists that are good programmers. But I'd be surprised if they weren't the exception.