> 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/
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