On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:45:09 +0300, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > 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. ===
When I first got interested in vim, it was because I watched people do vi's relatively simple navigation things -- being able to move a word at a time, delete a word, replace a word with simple keystrokes. But I don't think these make for a good tutorial. -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
