Tips for people who broke their favoured limb but still wish to code!!
1) Avoid activities which could damage the other arm...
2) Change mouse sensitivity in control panel:
lower if you go all over the place with your left, higher if you can't move far without pain - the body will learn!!
3) Do all your modeling first, cos it's easier to drag a vertex 'round slowly than to type like a maniac..
4) Stay almost insanely optimistic, like the little engine that could...
5) Where possible, use the brain rather than the hand, come to think of it that's serious advice...
6) Since I broke my wrist, my code has become more streamlined and elegant(relatively) because of item 5)
7) If you have a "special someone", get them to take dictation, it gives you a feeling of importance and domination whereas you should be feeling a bit stoopid and regretful... (oh yeah, and it may bring you closer together...)
8) Get them to do anything else that you can't be bothered doing...
9) Curse the fact that as humans, we are incapable of telekinesis...
10) Seriously, it gets frustrating, but you can overcome- I saw a kid on T.V with no arms who was absolutely amazing with his feet, you only have to get by for about 5 weeks or so...
11) Scoff at all sympathy, it makes you look like a man.
-sorry if this offends, just jokin'
-James
