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