Actually, I'd say 'read these books' and 'learn to type'. Half of development is communication - writing emails, comments, docs, whatever. Why wouldn't one ben

Actually, 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.