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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 08:47 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 09:03 AM EDT |
And by the ninties (when I was in high school), there weren't "typing
classes" anymore. It was a skill you were just assumed to be able to pick
up while doing other things.
Then again, when I was taking comp-sci at uni, learning any languages/libraries
referenced was just an "assumed" skill after the first year.
I personally think Knuth should be required reading for anyone doing anything
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 09:41 AM EDT |
> Back in the late '60s & early '70s, when I was in high school, it was
almost exclusively girls in the typing classes.
In 1977, when I was in high school, I was advised by the guidance counselor (a
woman) not to take a typing class because it would would appear to colleges that
I wanted to take an easy class, and besides, I would always have a secretary to
type whatever needed to be typed. I ended up being one of only a few boys in
the class, but that typing class ended up being one of the most practical
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 12:43 PM EDT |
I graduated from high school in '67. There were no boys allowed in the typing
class, nor were there any girls from the 'college prep' classes. Only second
level students planning to go to "business school", which was actually
a one year "Bryant and Stratton" secretarial training program.
I got my first opportunity to actually learn how to type when I got to the US
Navy Radioman school in 1970. I had to learn to touch type at 40 wpm then to
send and receive Morse code at 16 wpm before I could start classes. That took
most of us about 6 weeks, sitting at an Olivetti typewrite for seven hours, five
days a week.
Now I just sit in front of a computer writing code for seven hours a day. The
down side is that even though I have an amateur radio license, I hate Morse code
with a passion and refuse to renew my ability to use it. After all that pain to
learn it, I only used it for one exercise in eight years of active duty.
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