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/
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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.
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Vlad
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