From: "J.C. O'Connell"
I agree with the keyboarding test. They should teach keyboarding at a very young age. I was force to learn touchtyping when I took some computer programming classes and its been very valuable to me since.
I also had to take a keyboarding class when I went to back to school, and it was nothing like the typing class I took in high school. They let you look at the keys while you were "typing" and you were allowed to backspace & correct mistakes as you went along. I passed it easily, but I think I picked up a lot of bad habits from it. I learned to type on an old manual Remington. In my typing class, we weren't allowed to look at the keys, nor at the paper. I had to keep your eye on the copy in the lesson book or risk getting my knuckles whacked with a wooden ruler - the kind that had the little brass strip embedded in the edge. Wouldn't have done any good to look at the keys anyway, because the caps were all blank. It's a lot easier to correct spelling & grammar mistakes on a computer, but most people don't bother. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
