Hello Vim users, at the suggestion of a Reddit user, I am 'crossposting' a question I posted on the Vim Reddit[1].
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9dd7i/hey_rvim_please_suggest_a_task_for_a_college/ === I'm helping out with writing a task/tutorial-based lab for a freshman college class. I thought of including a couple of vim tasks, and am asking for your input. Right now, I think I can squeeze 2 small tasks in the lab. First one is about "syntax on" and putting that in vimrc, with finally mentioning that one can get a sane vimrc from the examples (why Ubuntu does not install a sane default with vim-full, I have no clue). The second task has been, for the past 2 years, writing a small C program and compiling it "from vim", using :!. I think we can do something a bit more exciting than that. Care to suggest something? A few "restrictions" I've found (but please, feel free to break them if you think you must): * it's probably the students' first ever contact with vim * vimtutor proved to scale very poorly -- students just skipped it, then were clueless for the rest of the tasks. The point is to show them that vim's "cool", not to become a PITA by always referring them back to the tutor * editing tasks such as "change one text into the other in as few keystrokes as possible" tend to bore both the students and TAs (they don't properly check the task) * we have quite little time, think 5-10 minutes per task for a student who first starts vim up. Sorry for the long post and I look forward to your suggestions. === Vlad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
