Let me attempt a rephrase... someone who can't even master basic skills will take shortcuts wherever they can. Is that really the sort of person you want on your team?
well given that I can only type about 40-50wpm, and any team that has me in any context I am qualified for, is incredibly lucky. Yeah, I think your generalization is pretty lol worthy and any correlation between an acceptably average typing speed and work ethic you have drawn is silly.
If you wanna say like 20wpm or something, then I could maybe see a point. But given that 40-50wpm is going be on the right side of the bell curve, it makes no sense
well given that I can only type about 40-50wpm, and any team that has me in any context I am qualified for, is incredibly lucky. Yeah, I think your generalization is pretty lol worthy and any correlation between an acceptably average typing speed and work ethic you have drawn is silly.
If you wanna say like 20wpm or something, then I could maybe see a point. But given that 40-50wpm is going be on the right side of the bell curve, it makes no sense
I don't think Craggoo means 40-50wpm - virtually no hunt-and-peck typists are at that level - so I'm pretty sure he's talking about people at around 20-30wpm at most.
Actually, I would say 40-50wpm is where hunt-and-peck typists max out at but I have no evidence to offer in support of that claim.
I'm sure some of them can type at that speed or even higher but unless the ones you work with are unusually fast for hunt-and-peckers, there's no particular reason to believe that they are in that range. It's like assuming most touch typists can type at 120+wpm.
I just tried this - I can't get go over 32wpm on typeracer hunt-pecking despite using 2 fingers on each hand and occasionally typing while looking at the screen and I was definitely typing faster than any hunt-and-pecking programmers I've seen.
I'm sure some of them can type at that speed or even higher but unless the ones you work with are unusually fast for hunt-and-peckers, there's no particular reason to believe that they are in that range. It's like assuming most touch typists can type at 120+wpm.
I just tried this - I can't get go over 32wpm on typeracer hunt-pecking despite using 2 fingers on each hand and occasionally typing while looking at the screen and I was definitely typing faster than any hunt-and-pecking programmers I've seen.
I have played on TypeRacer quite a bit. If there was a blaring *BEEP* of some sort when you type the wrong letter I bet you could get up to 50wpm with hunt-and-peck on there.
Maybe it is me but I only really need to touch type rapidly when I am "winging it from the keyboard" where the resulting code invariably ends up being refactored substantially. It is one way to go, not sure how effective that really is. Nearly all of the development work I do is on an existing code base though so ymmv.
I have 0 experience, but I'd like to give this coding thing a try. Since I have no basic I know I can't learn how to make software yet so I'd like to learn how to make and unserstand the basic of making a website. While browsing the web and this forum I came out with a few option. Maybe someone here know which one could be +EV for a beginer like me.
Yea my sense is the Harvard course would be better assuming the goal is to be able to build websites and make money ASAP. You build a site for the final project I think. I'd do that maybe in tandem with Odin, hard to say.
At first I was enjoying it very much. It was not too complex and I was understanding very well. Than he started to do some coding and I couldn't understand very well what he was doing. I did understand the patern, {} and algorithm thing. But when he went deeper into code command like printf "..." /n , etc. I asked myself if it was worth my time at the moment.
David is really entertaining, but I was looking for something more concrete first. Just to see if I like this all coding thing, but more to see if my brain is intelligent enough to consider this field as a future career.
But yeah, if he's not explaining what he's doing well enough, an online tutorial might give you a better, quicker hands on account of things, possibly better explained.
For most people (myself included) it is probably not an ideal introduction to programming. Even with some limited experience with Ruby and Javascript, I am finding the learning curve to be very steep.
I think the CS50 is hard to fill in the gaps sometimes because they show just the big lectures and do not include the 2 classes that the students attend during the week taught by the TA's.
If you want to get your feet wet code school is free this weekend. I enjoyed way more than code academy.
FYI, I am currently attending a bootcamp at RU in New Jersey. Started with HTML CSS and JavaScript along with Git and heroku. On the 6th week and we just wrapped up JQuery and APIs. Starting node.js in the upcoming weeks. It's only their second cohort but the job placement is amazing. It's one of the first universities to hold a bootcamp on their own.
I tried learning on my own but being in a physical setting with others on my skill level really benefited me. And the guidance from the TA's and instructors is invaluable.
Sorry posting on my phone but I will be on a PC soon. So any questions, fire away.
I think the CS50 is hard to fill in the gaps sometimes because they show just the big lectures and do not include the 2 classes that the students attend during the week taught by the TA's.
