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L. Rhodes

@anna The "proper" way. Easily the most useful thing I learned in high school.

11 Mar 2021 at 4:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on merveilles.town
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Anna e só

@lrhodes They taught this in school?! Informatics classes in Brazil were so chaotic my strongest memories of them are playing Carmen Sandiego games.

11 Mar 2021 at 4:21 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

@anna @lrhodes I do it the formal way. I think this also might be an age thing. Touch typing stopped being taught in high schools here some time in the last 20 years. It was a prerequisite for computer classes when I was a kid! You had to pass a wpm typing test or take a touch typing class before you could do anything with a computer in school

11 Mar 2021 at 5:02 | Open on friend.camp
kavbojka

@darius
I graduated high school in California almost 25 years ago, I don't recall them teaching typing then. I think I did tinker with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and also some freeware. I'm bummed to find out Mavis Beacon was not a real person and that the software was made by three white dudes en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_
I'm sure my dad only bought it because there was a black lady on the box
@anna @lrhodes

11 Mar 2021 at 5:24 | Open on mastodon.social
fools dare tread

@darius @anna @lrhodes I learned touch typing in junior high school in minnesota in the early 90s. I should ask my younger siblings if/when they stopped offering typing class... It was a prereq (soft) for the computing classes.

I still touch type but have developed some idiosyncrasies, I have nonstandard number row usage for example.

11 Mar 2021 at 6:04 | Open on aleph.land
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@darius

Yeah, same here! Though I dreaded typing class because nobody would focus on actually learning touch typing (I wanted to because I was terrible at it and I didn’t have a computer at home to practice) and instead would waste time playing Super Mario via an emulator, alt-tabbing away if the teacher came walking by 😂

@anna @lrhodes

11 Mar 2021 at 6:42 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Amanita ocreata

@darius I also type the formal way. I had to take a "basic computing" class in high school that was typing basics, how to use Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access (for some reason?), and other "very basic" stuff like, "what is ROM/RAM?", how to set up a WiFi connection, how to find reliable information on the internet...

I graduated in 2006 and it felt dated when I took it in 2004.

@anna @lrhodes

11 Mar 2021 at 6:45 | Open on weirder.earth
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