This is a poll for people who have ever made an attempt at obtaining a career in programming or system administration or something like that. I’m interested in your response if you’ve made any attempt of this sort, whether you’ve succeeded, changed your mind, etc.
ETA: Oops, I forgot an “I just want to see the results” option. If you vote randomly to see them, I’d appreciate it if you do not vote anonymously, and leave a comment reply.
At what age have you learned to touch-type?
[pollid:530]
How did you come to learn to touch-type?
[pollid:531]
How did your career attempt turn out?
[pollid:532]
I’m interested in this data to improve on some anecdotal evidence that is of interest to me: V’ir orra gbyq nobhg n cbffvoyr pbaarpgvba orgjrra n angheny vapyvangvba gbjneq gbhpu-glcvat (znavsrfgrq ol yrneavat gb gbhpu-glcr vaqrcraqragyl naq rneyl va yvsr) naq yvxryvubbq bs rawblvat naq fhpprrqvat va pnerref bs gur nsberzragvbarq glcr.)
I answered as close as I can remember, but I think touch typing is more of something I kind of picked up as time went by, rather than something I specifically learned at one point in time. I remember pushing myself to practice touch typing at various points, but the general recollection I have is that I didn’t really practice in a focused, systematic way, and yet now I can type this without needing to look at my keyboard (and in fact, when I look at my keyboard I’ll be likely to make more mistakes).
So I probably picked it up in my early twenties with a lot of typing of homework and essays and posts on forums.
By “touch-typing” do you mean typing without looking at the keyboard, that and typing using all ten fingers, or that and using the formal start-with-your-fingers-on-the-home-row techniques?
For consistency with previous results, answer using your best guess as to what I mean. (Jura V nfxrq, V zrnag gur jubyr ubzrebj ohfvarff ohg V qvqa’g ernyvmr gung gbhpu-glcvat vf glcvpnyyl qrsvarq va gur oebnqrfg frafr lbh zragvba.)
Note: I did not read the first paragraph and mistakenly answered the first two questions nonrandomly. Both of these questions have a spurious N/A answer.
I said ‘primarily through own efforts’, but 1) really I partially learned through a class, and partially independently of it, and it’s hard to recall the mixture of influences, and 2) ‘efforts’ is not really the right word, since the learning was really incidental to the fact that I was typing a hell of a lot; it wasn’t a deliberate act.
This is a poll for people who have ever made an attempt at obtaining a career in programming or system administration or something like that. I’m interested in your response if you’ve made any attempt of this sort, whether you’ve succeeded, changed your mind, etc.
ETA: Oops, I forgot an “I just want to see the results” option. If you vote randomly to see them, I’d appreciate it if you do not vote anonymously, and leave a comment reply.
At what age have you learned to touch-type? [pollid:530]
How did you come to learn to touch-type? [pollid:531]
How did your career attempt turn out? [pollid:532]
I’m interested in this data to improve on some anecdotal evidence that is of interest to me: V’ir orra gbyq nobhg n cbffvoyr pbaarpgvba orgjrra n angheny vapyvangvba gbjneq gbhpu-glcvat (znavsrfgrq ol yrneavat gb gbhpu-glcr vaqrcraqragyl naq rneyl va yvsr) naq yvxryvubbq bs rawblvat naq fhpprrqvat va pnerref bs gur nsberzragvbarq glcr.)
I answered as close as I can remember, but I think touch typing is more of something I kind of picked up as time went by, rather than something I specifically learned at one point in time. I remember pushing myself to practice touch typing at various points, but the general recollection I have is that I didn’t really practice in a focused, systematic way, and yet now I can type this without needing to look at my keyboard (and in fact, when I look at my keyboard I’ll be likely to make more mistakes).
So I probably picked it up in my early twenties with a lot of typing of homework and essays and posts on forums.
By “touch-typing” do you mean typing without looking at the keyboard, that and typing using all ten fingers, or that and using the formal start-with-your-fingers-on-the-home-row techniques?
For consistency with previous results, answer using your best guess as to what I mean. (Jura V nfxrq, V zrnag gur jubyr ubzrebj ohfvarff ohg V qvqa’g ernyvmr gung gbhpu-glcvat vf glcvpnyyl qrsvarq va gur oebnqrfg frafr lbh zragvba.)
I’m a sysadmin now, but I learnt to type when I was a rock critic.
Well, I hope you told the poll that your career attempt succeeded and also put in the age that you learned.
I replied randomly
Note: I did not read the first paragraph and mistakenly answered the first two questions nonrandomly. Both of these questions have a spurious N/A answer.
I said ‘primarily through own efforts’, but 1) really I partially learned through a class, and partially independently of it, and it’s hard to recall the mixture of influences, and 2) ‘efforts’ is not really the right word, since the learning was really incidental to the fact that I was typing a hell of a lot; it wasn’t a deliberate act.
Not sure how this influences the survey. :-)