Keyboarding skills

Exercises to increase fluency with refactoring by practicing using keyboard shortcuts more.

Learning Goals

• Use keyboard shortcuts for Move Line, Inline, Multiple Cursors, Expand Selection
• Identify what happens when you do ‘inline’ on methods and variables

Session Outline

• 2 min connect: keyboard shortcuts you use a lot
• 10 mins concept and do: Move Line
• 10 mins concept and do: Navigation
• 10 mins concept and do: Inline
• 10 mins concept and do: Multi Cursor
• 10 mins concept and do: Expand Selection
• 2 min reflect: note most useful shortcuts

Connect: keyboard shortcuts you use a lot

What are the keyboard shortcuts that you use the most while coding? Dot voting, up to 5 votes each:

• Copy
• Cut
• Paste
• Move Line
• Expand Selection
• Rename
• Extract Method/Function
• Delete
• Introduce Variable
• Create Cursor/Caret
• Inline
• Navigate to definition
• Find Usages
• Introduce Constant
• Undo
• Bold text
• Find in files
• Comment lines

The goal is just to remind people they already know some shortcuts, even if it’s only Ctrl-C for copy and Ctrl-V for paste.

Concept and do

Use the Keyboard Shortcut Katas. The five sections are listed in the README. For each one, present the challenge, get people to identify the relevant keyboard shortcuts, and let them work on it individually.

Conclusions

Get a sticky note to keep next to your screen. Note down on it one or two keyboard shortcuts that you will try to use more often now.