Lennart Regebro

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Python 3 developer and entrepreneur, author of Porting to Python 3.

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Nov 21	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @balancedmama: You may have a point about the posture. Again "slowness of typing" is not only helped by home-row touch typing lessons, it's mainly helped by using a keyboard a lot.
Nov 21	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? I claim that it is not generally useful enough to increase your typing speed from 50wpm to 80wpm so that kids should spend the significant amount of time needed on it, yes.
Nov 20	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? There is no clearly outlined alternative, because the only method that exists is home-row touch-typing. The alternative is: No method. Just type. She'll learn. There's no real problem in staring at the keyboard at lot either. Again, unless your aim is to type as fast as possible. Which is not a useful skill anymore than stacking cups is. Unless you do it professionally.
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Nov 20	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @Beofett: Qwerty has nothing to do with it. It's the home row typing position, which is not comfortable due to the unnatural angle you need to hold your hands in, unless you also have an ergonomic split keyboard. Which most people don't have. I mentioned Dworak, because the few programmers I have met that actually use home-row touch typing tend to also have ergonomic and/or Dworak keyboards.
Nov 20	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @Beofett: I'm not claiming that you can't type faster with home-row touch typing than I can. I'm claiming that is not a useful skill, unless you are a professional typist. I type around 50 words per minute. When you need to think about what you write, that's faster than you need. Professional typists are typically 50 to 80 wpm according to Wikipedia. Most people write 33 words per minute. When you formulate what you write, it's 19 so at 33wpm already you type faster than you think. So sure, if you want your kids to become a typist, by all means, have them practice home-row touch typing. :-)
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @balancedmama: I did not "learn" my "alternate style". I developed it by typing a lot. It's simply the simplest, fastest way for me to type while still having my hands in a position that is not painful. Another person probably would do things slightly differently.
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @Beofett IMO they are not useful, because structured touch-typing lessons teach home-row touch typing. You might become somewhat faster than otherwise, but only after a lot of practice, and the home-row position is uncomfortable and unergonomic. Homerow touch-typing is only useful if your intention is to become a professional typist.
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? "Keyboard time" is good and well. Having "Typing" on the curriculum may not be, as that implies touch-typing and home-row typing stuff, which IMO is not useful.
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @balancedmama: That's false dichotomy. "Hunt and peck" assumes that you sit and watch the keyboard and look for the keys. "Home row" is not the only option to that. I do neither, as do most people used to keyboards. I know where the keys are and can generally type without looking at the keyboard, but I do not use home-row. This I taught myself, and so does everyone else, just by typing a lot. It wouldn't be called "touch-typing" by anyone who actually use that word. :-)
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? @Beofett: Right, the intention was not to slow it down per se. It was just a result of it by putting common keys far away from each other and on less strong fingers.
Nov 19	revised	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? added 48 characters in body
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? Sure, but unlike cleaning the kitchen, typing, as usually defined ie using home-row position etc, isn't really a useful skill.
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? Using Word and knowing typing are two completely different skills. It's like knowing how to cook and knowing how to clean the kitchen. I have no real experience or insight in teaching kids how to use the computer.
Nov 19	comment	What are the merits of teaching a child to type correctly at the expense of time practiced with handwriting? Today it's necessary to know how to use a computer and keyboard. But typing that's a skill involving particular hand positions and techniques. You don't need it.
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Nov 19	comment	What are the pros and cons of adopted children taking their adoptive parents' name? And by changing the name they might feel that you are forcing them and that you are severing their links to their earlier life. So it's not that easy.
Nov 19	comment	What are the pros and cons of adopted children taking their adoptive parents' name? @balancedmama: You made this comment to the poster on an answer, not on the question. You probably want to move it.
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