Re: [bug-gtypist] learn to code

[geoffroy tremblay]

Great, will try it out and post the result. 

What is it with using Vim? While editing the file or with gtypist?

thanks!
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:19:11PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote:
> geoffroy tremblay <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi there, 
> 
> hello Geoffroy,
> 
> > Thank you for gtypist I finally learned to type :D 
> 
> That's good to hear!
> 
> > I wanted to see if I could use gtypist to help me learn javascript. One
> > way I though would be great is to re-type library like jquery. Did
> > someone created lessons like that already?
> 
> Why not, good idea :-)
> 
> > I would be interested too if there was any other 'source code' lesson
> > already made for gtypist. 
> 
> There is only ttde.typ which does something like that in the last
> few lessons, but that is German only.
> 
> > If not I was trying to use the jquery source code to create a lessons. I
> > installed gtypist with apt-get from debian, so I had to download the
> > source code to use the ktouch2typ script,
> 
> It's included in the debian package:
> /usr/share/doc/gtypist/tools/ktouch2typ.pl.gz
> 
> > but it send an error about the
> > XML/Parser/PERLSAX.pm, do I need to install some pearl library for that
> > to work, or to compile gtypist to start with?
> 
> It looks like you need to install the libxml-perl package.
> 
> > Also would there be any problem to use code instead of text in lessons?
> > I would also like to have the comments in the lessons, for example
> > Jquery has quite a lot of comment which help to understand the code. 
> 
> No, not really. It is good practice to introduce characters such as {}
> before you use them in drills/speed tests. You can have a look at
> ttde.typ. Comments ('#') are treated as gtypist comments only if they
> are at the very beginning of the line, so you can use '#' in lesson
> content everywhere.
> 
> You might want to use Emacs or vim because we have highlighting support
> for these editors (preconfigured for you on Debian) :-)
> 
> Good Luck and Have Fun!
> -- 
> Felix Natter