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* [TUHS] Typing tutors
@ 2021-02-06  2:57 Will Senn
  2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
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From: Will Senn @ 2021-02-06  2:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

On a completely different note... I’ve been delving into typing tutor programs of late. Quite a mishmash of approaches out there. Not at all like what I remember from junior high - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, kinda stuff. Best of breed may be Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on the gui front, and I hate to admit it, gnu typist, on the console front.

I’m wondering if there are some well considered unix programs, historically, for learning typing? Or did everyone spring into the unix world accomplished typists straight outta school? I did see mention a while back about a TOPS-10 typing tutor, not unix, but in the spirit - surely there's some unix history around typing tutors.

Thanks,

Will


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* [TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research
@ 2017-04-06  2:15 Jason Stevens
  2017-04-06  2:20 ` Noel Hunt
  2017-04-06  6:57 ` [TUHS] Unix emacs at Bell Labs and elsewhere Erik E. Fair
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From: Jason Stevens @ 2017-04-06  2:15 UTC (permalink / raw)


I suppose that it would make sense that all of AT&T's leading edge projects would use research Unix.  I've always heard of the original C++ to C translator but this is the first time I've actually seen it.

It doesn't look like it had the wide scale following that C or Fortan had at this point.

Sadly my experience with C++ was mostly tied to Borland on the micro in early 90's, which makes it look mature compared to these early versions.

It's great finding stuff like this in the tree hiding in plain sight, if only you know what to look for. (http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/researchv9/cmd/cfront/?cvsroot=rv9)

Or that emacs was in the v9 tree, in the religious wars I always imagined NJ being more vi.  

Thanks again for making this release happen!

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2021-02-06  2:57 [TUHS] Typing tutors Will Senn
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22   ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 17:29     ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:33     ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-06 17:47       ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 18:06         ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 22:38       ` Dave Horsfall
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2021-02-07  0:25           ` John Cowan
2021-02-08 22:20             ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 22:58               ` David Barto
2021-02-08 23:01               ` Clem Cole
2021-02-07 17:43         ` Mary Ann Horton
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2021-02-08  0:56                 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-08  5:15                   ` Erik E. Fair
2021-02-08  5:33                     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 15:54                       ` Will Senn
2021-02-08  5:29             ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-08 20:41               ` Andrew Newman
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