This is a great question!
And I've had similar experiences with typing things in and then retaining them better. (For me, it works with people's names, too -- if I type in your name, I'm vastly more likely to remember it than if you say it to me.) The thing to bear in mind is that we, being in the business, have vastly more experience with command line than most of the researchers we teach and serve. So what's obvious to us -- for example, that many of us retain commands much better if we type them out -- isn't obvious to them, because they haven't had enough experience with memorizing commands to realize that. And it's definitely the case that copy-and-paste can be faster -- especially if you don't type so much that you're super fast at it. --- Henry Neeman ([email protected]) Assistant Vice President, Information Technology - Research Strategy Advisor Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) Associate Professor, Gallogly College of Engineering Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science The University of Oklahoma 3200 Marshall Avenue Suite 130, Norman OK 73019 405-325-5386 (office), 405-325-5486 (fax), 405-245-3823 (cell), [email protected] (to e-mail me a text message) http://www.oscer.ou.edu/ ---------- On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Purwanto, Wirawan wrote: >All, > >I am new to Carpentry community so please >bear with me if this is a stupid question, >or not related to Carpentry. I have been >facilitating people on my campus to use HPC >and research computing resources in general. > >One thing I see with many folks learning new >computing stuff is that they are lazy at >typing even simple commands. Instead, they >rely on cut and paste operation. I believe >there is something done on your brain if you >actually type or write things down, instead >of merely staring at words and do "passive" >copy-and-paste operation. I still >intentionally type commands (even if they >are somewhat long) just to get it written on >my brain. Anyone having similar observation? >If so, how will you encourage them to be >"active" in typing rather than just do the >most convenient thing? > >Wirawan Purwanto >Computational Scientist, Research Computing Group >Information Technology Services >Old Dominion University >Norfolk, VA 23529 > >The Carpentries / discuss / see discussions + >participants + delivery options >Permalink ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Taf27bc5ac21f2829-M26a6628ad0c8647e1a09a61c Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups
