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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Real Time Handwriting Recognition
Keywords: Typing
Message-ID: <2107@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 22:52:20 GMT
References: <83242@sun.uucp> <7801@boring.cwi.nl> <1059@ns.UUCP> <3871@ece-csc.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <3871@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:

>I am personally dismayed at the lack of typing competence in the younger
>generation of computer users.  I think it's inexcusable that elementary and
>high schools allow students to take computer courses without first passing
>SOME kind of rudimentary keyboard competence test--say, 25 wpm on a blank
>keyboard.  Typing will eventually replace handwriting of (virtually) all forms.
>It's not a difficult skill to master.  It's going to be increasingly
>important in the future.  I can't imagine the time typing 80-90 wpm has
>saved me writing prototype code and documentation ...

I agree wholeheartedly.

My mother taught typing, shorthand and business courses at the high school
level for years. 

When I went to high school typing was the one and only course she said I
*had* to take and pass. 

Given the amount of typing I now do editing software and typing in news
articles, I am forever grateful that I can touch type with reasonable speed
and accuracy.


-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532