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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to Tux Typing.
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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to Tux Typing.

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Learning Objectives

In this tutorial you will learn about the Tux Typing software and its interface.
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In this tutorial you will learn about the Tux Typing software and its interface.

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|| You will also learn to type:

Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard with the English alphabet keys.  
Without having to look down at the keyboard every time you type.
|| You will also learn to type:

Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard with the English alphabet keys.  
Without having to look down at the keyboard every time you type.

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What is Tux Typing?

Tux Typing is a typing tutor.

It teaches you how to type using interactive games and gradually introduces you to typing different characters.
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What is Tux Typing?

Tux Typing is a typing tutor.

It teaches you how to type using interactive games and gradually introduces you to typing different characters.

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|| You can:

Learn typing at your own pace.

Gradually increase your typing speed and along with it your accuracy. 

Enter new words for practice and set the language for typing.
|| You can:

Learn typing at your own pace.

Gradually increase your typing speed and along with it your accuracy. 

Enter new words for practice and set the language for typing.

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Systems Requirements

Tux Typing 1.8.0

Ubuntu Linux version 11.10.
|| Here, we are using Tux Typing 1.8.0 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.


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You can install Tux Typing using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
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You can install Tux Typing using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.

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|| Let’s open Tux Typing.

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|| First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.
|| First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.


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|| The Search box appears.
|| The Search box appears.

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|| In the Search box, next to Dash Home, type Tux Typing.
Click on the Tux Typing icon.
|| In the Search box, next to Dash Home, type Tux Typing.
 

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|| Point to the Tux Typing icon.
|| The Tux Typing icon appears beneath the Search box.

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|| Click the Tux Typing icon.
|| Click the Tux Typing icon.

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|| Point to the Tux Typing window.
|| The Tux Typing window appears.

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|| Point to Fish Cascade (pause for two seconds).

Point to Comet Zap (pause for two seconds).

Point to Lessons (pause for two seconds).

Point to Options.

Point to Quit
|| Tux Typing comprises the following menus:

Fish Cascade – A gaming zone

Comet Zap – Another gaming zone

Lessons – Comprises different lessons that will teach us to learn characters

Options – Comprises menus that help us to edit words, learn to type phrases, get information of the tux typing project, and set up the language.

Quit – Click to quit the game.


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|| Let us practice to type using the lessons.

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|| In the Main menu >> click Lessons.
|| In the Main menu, click Lessons.

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|| Point to the window comprising the lessons.
|| The window comprising the lesson appears.

Let us start by learning the first lesson.

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|| Click basic_lesson_01.xml.
|| Click basic_lesson_01.xml.

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|| Point to the window comprising the instructions.
|| The window comprising the instructions appears.

Read the instructions. 

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|| Press the space bar to start the lesson.
|| To start the lesson, let us press the space bar.

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|| Point to the window displaying the keyboard.
|| The window displaying the keyboard appears.

We will now start learning to type the letter a.

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|| Press p to start practicing.
|| Press p to start practicing.

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|| Point to the window displaying the characters to type.
|| A window that displays the characters to type appears.

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|| Point to the line displaying the characters to type.
|| What does this line displaying ‘aaa aaa…..’ mean? 
You are required to type these letters.
Let us name this line as Teacher’s line.

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|| Point to the keyboard.
|| We now see the English keyboard which is the standard keyboard that most of us.

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|| Do you see the red square around a? It indicates that it is the character that you have to type now.

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|| Point to the first line in the keyboard.

|| The first line of the keyboard displays numerals special characters  and the backspace key. 


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|| You press the backspace key to delete typed characters.

The keyboard also has three rows of alphabets, numerals and other characters.

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|| Point to the second line of the keyboard.
|| The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Enter key.

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|| Point to the Enter key at the right hand corner of the keyboard’s second line.
|| You press the Enter key to go to the next line.


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|| Point to the third line of the keyboard.
|| The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, colon/semicolon, and caps lock key.

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|| Point to the Caps Lock key.
|| Press the Caps Lock key to type capital letters.

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|| Point to the fourth line of the keyboard.
|| The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys.

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|| Point to the Shift keys at the left hand corner and right hand corners of the third line.
|| Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.

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Shift Key

Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.

For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.

To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.
|| Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.

For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.

To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.

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|| Point to the fifth line of the keyboard.
|| The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys. It also contains the space bar.

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|| Now let us see if there are differences between the Tux Typing keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard.

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Display the image of the desktop keyboard and laptop keyboard as given below and also title them.

Desktop Keyboard

 

Laptop Keyboard

 
|| Notice that the Tux Typing keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.

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|| Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.

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Display an image similar to the one attached below with callouts for the different fingers.
 
Point to each finger with the cursor.
|| Look at this slide. 

It displays the fingers and their names. 

Fingers, from left to right, are named:

Little finger,

Ring finger,

Middle finger,

Index finger and

Thumb.

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Right Hand Keys

Place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard. 

Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’,

Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,

Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,

Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.
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Place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard. 

Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’,

Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,

Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,

Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.

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Left Hand Keys

Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard. 

Ensure that the little finger is on the :/; keystroke,

Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’, 

Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’, 

Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.
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Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard. 

Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colour keystroke,

Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’, 

Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’, 

Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.

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|| Use your right thumb to press the space bar.

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|| Switch back to the Tux Typing’s basic_lesson_01.xml interface.
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|| Point to the images of the two hands.
|| The two hand images will guide you to use the right finger to type the character. 

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|| Point to the left-hand little finger over which the red circle glows.
|| Wondering what the red circle over the left-hand little finger? 

Your guess is right.

You need to use that finger to type a. 

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|| Place your fingers on the keyboard as indicated earlier in the lesson.

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|| Now, let us start typing.


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|| Type the characters displayed in the teacher’s line.
|| As we type, the characters are displayed in the line below the Teacher’s line.
 

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|| Point to the line which you just typed.
|| Let us name this the Student’s line.

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|| Type any character that is not displayed in the teacher’s line.

|| Now let’s type a character that is not displayed in the teacher’s line.

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|| Point to the mistyped character on the keyboard.
|| Do you see that mistyped character displayed in the student’s line?
It is not displayed. 
Instead an X mark briefly appears on the mistyped character on the keyboard.

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|| Type another 10 letters and stop.
|| Let’s type a few more letters.

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|| Now let us collect the metrics of our typing.

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|| Point to the fields on the left hand side of the window on by one.
|| By now you would have guessed what the fields on the left hand side indicate.

Time – Specifies the speed of your typing

Chars – Indicates the number of characters typed by you

CPM – Indicates the characters per minute typed by you

WPM – Specifies the number of words typed by you

Errors – Indicates the number of errors typed by you

Accuracy – Indicates the accuracy of your typing

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|| Press the Escape key twice.
|| Press the Escape key twice to go back to the main menu.

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|| We have learnt our first typing lesson!

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It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.

Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
|| It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.

Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.

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Summary
In this tutorial we learnt about the Tux Typing interface and completed our first typing lesson.


|| This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Tux Typing. In this tutorial we learnt about the Tux Typing interface and completed our first typing lesson.



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Assignment

Switch to basic_lesson_02.xml. 

Practice with this level.

Complete typing all the characters in this level and press the Enter key.

Similarly you can practice different lessons.
|| Here is an assignment for you.

Switch to basic_lesson_02.xml. 

Practice with this level.

Complete typing all the characters in this level and press the Enter key.

Similarly you can practice different lessons.



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About the Spoken Tutorial Project

*Watch the video available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial

*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

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*Watch the video available at the following link 

*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

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Spoken Tutorial Workshops

The Spoken Tutorial Project Team

*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test

*For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org

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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team

*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials

*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test

*For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org

 

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Acknowledgements 

*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

*More information on this Mission is available at

*http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro

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*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

*More information on this Mission is available at

*spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro

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About the contributor

*This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

*www.desicrew.in

*Thanks for joining

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*This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

*Thanks for joining.

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