Instructions assignment reflection letter

Overall I had a lot of fun with this assignment. I wrote the entire assignment in VIM. VIM is something that I am passionate about and I really appreciated the opportunity to be able to share it with people, what it is and why I use it. Ultimately I do not think that it really saves me so much time to not use the mouse when text editing but it feels very comfortable for me to be able to navigate exactly where I want in a line or a file quickly. When writing the issues I took a lot of inspiration for the format from my QA (quality assurance) course that I am currently taking. I opted to repeat a lot of the preconditions between the multiple issues because of the standard format of test cases in my QA programming course. I think that incorporating this format helps reduce errors in the users execution of the solution.

        One major consideration that I had behind the scenes of writing these instructions was the variance in how the cursor is displayed between different installations of vim in normal mode. Sometimes in normal mode the cursor is shown as a block that displays on top of the characters in the word, but other times the cursor is displayed as just a bar. I felt that the hardest part of this tutorial would be describing the correct cursor positions, which would likely cause many issues for a beginner. Because of this limitation, for the commands that need to be on a specific letter before executing, I opted to use the Vim find command 'f' because it wouldn't require explaining the cursor position as explicitly: before, after, or on top of a specific letter, I also have the user press '0' to start at the beginning of the line to avoid further issues because if the reader started at the end of the line or after the designated letter, the find command would not find the correct letter or it would not find any letters. The find command can actually search backwards by using capital "F" but I wanted to reduce error by just saying what to do instead of explaining this. For somebody that does not know what vim is this approach teaches them something about some specific VIM motions and also exactly what it is by explaining what the motions are doing after the user executes them but not describing the underlying mechanics.

        Realistically I would probably use the find command for these operations as well, even though its not necessarily the most beginner friendly way of vim navigation, and a beginner would likely use whatever is fastest for them. I wanted to create this guide, not for beginners who want to try it out and learn it, rather I wrote it to showcase vim commands that I would realistically use that are a bit more advanced. I think I am really comfortable with this format of writing and I would like to see somebody try out my instructions. In the final draft I could benefit from creating a very clear and consistent structure. Maybe I could make a guide for how to read the formatting of the commands and maybe some quick tips and troubleshooting tips and add Images. If i made all of those revisions for the final draft I think it would be very good and I would even put it on my blog.         Reflecting on the reflection letter, I should definably consolidate some restated ideas but generally I think the flow and the content are pretty decent in the reflection letter.""