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When you justify text for print, you almost always have to manually tweak the result to avoid wrong spacing, bad hyphenation, rivers, ... Justified text and automatic layout do not (yet) go hand in hand.

Left aligned text has also its issues but, most of the time you won't notice them on screen.

The article you're linking looks better than average, but it feels a bit too much like a text wall to my eyes... I guess that the lines contain a number of characters and words that is big enough to allow a more even distribution, at the price of longer lines that are less comfortable to read.

For me the rule is still that text that is automatically formatted should be mostly left aligned. But indeed, if you correctly setup the hyphenation, you can produce something that is somehow OK.

There is a (similar?) effort that takes inspiration from dwm:

https://github.com/prabirshrestha/dwm-win32

Maybe you can take inspiration from one another...

I'm really tempted to try them out, but I probably first need a spare Windows system...

One of the recent features I most love in Gimp is "/" to search through the commands.

(More and more graphics programs are adopting it.)

Once you're used to it, you can create the ellipse selection and type "/stroke"...

I guess that unless the Gimp developers change their mind and allow for vector drawing inside of Gimp, it's as comfortable as it can get...

In my eyes, vi is ok for system administration, but not for programming.

The differences are not huge, but even if I have a "small" .vimrc with one single plugin, I have issues using the vim.tiny installed on Debian by default.

The Vim help has a list of the differences:

https://vimhelp.org/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-1.4

The most important to me are:

- a real undo - buffers - macros (recorded on the fly with ththe q key) - visual mode (included the block selection mode) - text completion (ctrl-p, ctrl-x-f) - automatic indenting - advanced text objects (selecting everyting between '()')

Not having one single of them would not hinder me much... but all of them at once: that hurts!

My personal answer: I'm touch typing. I can do so without looking at the screen. While I'm typing, I can think of what I want to say next. At least to some degree.

Vim helps me to stay focused, to stick to my thoughts instead of having to work with the IDE/editor.

I don't have to select a word, by detecting its boundaries (or point to it and double click), delete it and type an new word.

ciwnew word^

what looks like random chars is almost a reflex, when you get the Vim "grammar".

(of course, you can do it with any editor: ctrl-left, ctrl-shift-right, delete, "new word".)

So, yes, you're 100% right: programming is no about typing. And Vim helps me to care even less about typing the code.

for those who slept in, 05.05.2020 is coming soon... the mirrored day...

no, i've only tried it out for myself:

https://github.com/CoderDojoZH/resources/blob/master/cards-p...

i really liked it, but i don't consider it a mature product i would use "in production".

because of our approach, we can't really adopt it until it's natively supported by a "package" like mu-editor or thonny

my conclusion was:

as a "senior" programmer, who grew up with procedural programming, i'm still "scared" about relying on annotations and async programming.

but, for kids coming from scratch and without much other experiences, i'm not sure that it will be a big stumbling stone.

they will simply "learn" it in a different way: at the beginning, programming is (mostly) black magic anyway : - )

it might be even easier for them to use play, than relying on the magic update() and draw() functions...

(and, no, i don't think it makes a big difference to call those function from a main loop like in pygame or having them implicit like in pygame zero)

probably, the biggest issue would be that the founding blocks of play do not match what the kids will learn in most python tutorials and books (they probably won't find any reference to async or annotations in most programming books for kids or even for beginners!)

all in all: i like play and i think it could be a good match if the focus is more on computer science topics...

in our case, the focus is on the kids having a good time on sunday afternoons and getting them to learn to be an (active) actor in front of their computer, not just a (passive) consumer. we are not too picky about the concepts : - )

- our cards are here: https://github.com/CoderDojoZH/resources/tree/master/cards-p...

- harder as in scratch? it's about this scratch and this game: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/644508/

- a pong in 5'30"... of course, but his real tutorial is 3 hours : - ) ... and that pong game does much more than what our kids can achieve...

- our kids debugging skills are often very limited (both in skills and patience)... correctly matching the filename and the actor is a good example for learning the debugging but it's often already too much: they just want to see it work!)

i've skimmed through it: very nice book!

one thought: after having read your introduction for the teachers, i wonder why you did not "sort it" the other way round: first the hands on and the tutorials and then the theory...

for our coderdojo we went for a "cards" approach:

https://github.com/CoderDojoZH/resources/tree/master/cards-p...

we suggest the kids to first do the pong game in scratch (we have a booklet with step by step instructions) and then use the set of cards (in order) to do the same. we try to avoid that they just copy the snippets line by line, without thinking at what they are doing...

i will now give them a link to your book when they want to learn about python!

you might want to have a look at python play: https://github.com/replit/play

the same goal as pygame zero but with a very different approach.

and no WIDTH and HEIGHT variables...

in my experience, pygame zero works well with 10 - 14 year kids.

i run a coderdojo and we have developed a system of cards that helps the kids creating a pong game with pygame zero.

in two hours of our weekly meeting, they manage to

- install the mu editor,

- create the game window

- download an image from the internet,

- put it in their game

- move the image around with the arrow keys

mostly by themselves.

loading the image is indeed one of the big issues they often face. but i'm convinced that it will often be an issue anyway: kids need some mentoring there.

(really, you cannot rely on the fact that they will be typing the file name correctly or that they will put the image in a specific directory, with the right extension).

this having been said, writing a full pong is much harder as in scratch. they do need some real mentoring for the further steps.

concerning your suggestion with yeso: for our setup, providing an image through the command line is probably not an improvement.

most of our kids are using windows or mac and we avoid forcing them to use the terminal during their first steps of "creating a game with real programming".

managing files is hard...

It does work on my older xps 13... Just slap three fingers on the pad.

But it's not 100% reliable.

When I'm not using a mouse, I mostly prefer shift-ins... since the hand is already on the keyboard...

That's not true. Mozilla did not want (even slightly) modified versions of Firefox or Thunderbird to be labelled as such.

The issue has been solved and, currently, Debian has renamed its package back to Firefox.

On top of it, this has probably nothing to do with this topic. (copyrights and branding being very different topics)

mypaint (http://mypaint.org) is like krita but for the hobby painters...

So nicely inspired by this thread /me is trying to create his first Atom package...

I'm looking for a solution for creating short and clean screen casts for teaching programming.

I want to be able to prepare my scripts in advance and then play them when recording (or directly converting to something i can put in a webpage).

The best solution I've found to time is https://github.com/gu-fan/autotype.vim ... but in my tries it was flickering a bit too much.

Does anybody know a good, lightweight and free software solution that allows to move the cursor during the editing?

Would you mind creating a plugin also for Inkscape?

IANAT (... i am not a theologian... but i've been surrounded by them for almost all my life)

"there is no Catholic God, there is just one God"

I've been told that this is one of the main changes that resulted from Vatican II: there is only one God and it's shared by the whole world population. On the other side, the Catholics pretend to have the "right" way to praise that common God. (but that's not what you were saying)

Francis seems to be in line with the official doctrine. (and from the article this seems to be a constant in his actions)

One of the most sacred Christian texts, the Athanasian Creed

Never heard of that text. And a quick visit to Wikipedia tells me:

"Today, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western Church."

After those two remarks, I don't think your statements are in way representative for a common way to understand the Catholic religion nor for the official Vatican position.

it depends on what you want to do... but my general reflex is:

- go to line 3

- start recording a temporary macro ("qq" in my habits)

- do the editing

- stop the macro ("q")

- go to the line 16 with 16gg and reply the macro with @q - 39gg@q

- 50gg@q

- ...

Wordpress is 14 years old.

It's probably a good reference project, when talking about maintenance (nightmares).

As far as i know it's (very) hard to do correctly.

There are (small or big) differences among languages and it is not always obvious to detect ,if the quote should be converted at all, if it's a left one, or a right one.

As a reference, this is a Python Script trying to do the conversion in Scribus:

https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Convert_Typewriter_Quotes_to...

There is also an article by the author of the script, explaining his work and pointing to at least one common case it cannot handle:

https://opensource.com/article/17/3/python-scribus-smart-quo...

Putting all this logic in a font might or not be something your really want...

But I 100%: this should be done at the font level... and hard replacing characters is not a good solution.

what about opening a ticket / doing a pull request with a better trivial example that does not "teach" bad habits?

indeed, there is one thing i don't understand: why $class and not metaclass...

He probably does not need a visa (that's the case if one has a biometric passport)

For a 8 year old, Löve might be a bit hard.

At our weekly CoderDojo in Zurich, we're using love2d (and processing) as the next step for the kids that over 10 years and who are comfortable with typing.

Both just work!

https://www.meetup.com/Coder-Dojo-Zurich/

Your welcome to join with your kids or as a mentor if you happen to be not too far away...

From what I understand, the difference is:

- In Europe a stop sign means that you have to wait until the way is clear. Of course, you normally don't have stops on more than two of the roads crossing. (Theoretically, you can wait forever at a stop, since people on the other roads won't stop and let you through)

- In North America (I've seen it in Canada), you have stop signs on all four roads crossing and you get through in a first in first out turn.

It seems to me that

- the US uses stop signs as a way to slow down the traffic (so, no real meaning), but

- in Europe it does have a clear meaning: "it's dangerous to drive over a crossing without halting". Not only you have to be careful because you have no right of way (the "give way" sign) but you really have to stop and look at the traffic, mostly due to poor visibility (or high difference in speed).

I fear that you must be doing something very wrong... Or you did not find the rights word to explain your issue (to me).

Do you mean that you, then, have to rebuild your project from scratch?

Hi Zebra, I might be getting old, but your request seems very strange to me.

I have subscribed many mailing lists during my life and there is no single one that I could define in any way as "commercial".

On the other side, Gitter is a commercial platform that depends on one of two other commercial platforms (Twitter or Github).

I wonder if I should revide my opinion on the usage of Gitter for free software projects...

I have bought an XPS13 Sputnik this spring, have put Debian Testing on it, and had no single issue related to the the machine itself.

At least, I think so...

And, well, I'm not too picky...

In my current commune of residence, I have been (s)"elected" for that task during a couple of years and:

- I never had to show up (there seem to be enough people volunteering...). - If you have good reasons, you can contest the election.

(IIRC, formally, I've been elected to that task... but I have no idea who did elect me...).