I think generally the carpentreies style of teaching encourages learners to type things out because it does make it "stickier".
When instructing, I make sure to verbally encourage them to type things out, and try to type slowly/pause and explain why i'm typing what i'm typing so they dont' fall behind. Some instructors don't provide learners with any material to copy and paste and give the materials after the workshop is over. This works ok if you have ample helpers to catch people up when they fall behind. That said, I have had workshop attendees with issues that make it hard for them to type, so it's important to make accommodations for those attendees. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:53 AM Henry Neeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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-Me875f2053ff65376c87072fa Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups
