Re: [bug-gtypist] gtypist for programmers

[Daniel L. Sockwell]

Thanks for the encouragement, James.

All, I have attached a .typ file with a P series of lessons.  This series of eleven lessons focuses on special character keys that are not covered much in the previous lessons but that are useful for programming.  Specifically, it reviews the following keys (which were previously covered):

    ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) ? / " ' :

and it introduces the following keys:

  + - _ = > < { } ] [ ` ~ \ |

The first two lessons are review; the next six introduce the new keys, and the final three provide long-form practice.  Where possible, I tried to include typing exercises consisting of actual code, since I figure that is where these characters will see the most use.  At the moment, these examples are biased towards languages with C-like syntax, though we could certainly expand them if anyone thinks other styles should be included more prominently. 

As it stands, this lesson can be run in the same manner as the non-English lessons, by calling it from the command line with a path to the file.  In the future, it could be merged into the master lesson plan.

I welcome any comments and would be happy to improve the lesson if anyone has suggestions or feedback.

Best regards,

Daniel

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018, at 1:22 PM, James Morris wrote:

On 03/04/18 21:31, Daniel L. Sockwell wrote:

On a (somewhat) related note, I have been working on a series of GTypist lessons that drill some of the keys that are frequently used when writing code but that are not used that often in writing prose (such as [, {. ~, `, <, and |).  I'm hoping that the lesson would help play to GTypist's existing strength for programming typing.  I'll circulate the lesson script when I have an initial version, hopefully in the next few days.  If others agree, incorporating the new lesson could be a project for the new maintainer.

Just to say I like this idea (I was only ever a keen hobbyist coder, and

have stopped now, but still write a few bash scripts from time to time)

and this was one of the things I frequently wanted more of from gtypist.

James.

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