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

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|In this tutorial, you will learn about  '''Tux Typing''' and the '''Tux typing interface'''. 

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|You will learn how to type

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|accurately, quickly and efficiently on a computer keyboard that has English alphabet keys.

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|You will also learn to type without having to look down at the keyboard every time you type. 

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|What is '''Tux Typing'''? 

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| Tux Typing is a typing tutor. 

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|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 
    
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|and gradually increase your typing speed and along with it your accuracy. 

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|Tux typing also enables you to  enter new words for practice and set the language for typing. 

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|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'''. 

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|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. 

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|The '''Search box''' appears. In the Search box, next to Dash Home, type "Tux Typing". 

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|The '''Tux Typing''' icon appears beneath the '''Search box'''. 

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|Click the 'Tux Typing' icon. 

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|The Tux Typing window appears.

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|The Tux Typing comprises the following menus: 

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|'''Fish Cascade''' – a gaming zone
'''Comet Zap''' – another gaming zone 

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| '''Lessons''' – comprises different lessons that will teach us to learn characters.
 
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| '''Options''' – Comprises menus that help us to edit words, learn to type phrases, get information on the tux typing project and set up the language. 

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| '''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'''. 

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|The window comprising the lesson appears.

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|Let us start by learning the first lesson. 

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|Click '''"basic_lesson_01.xml"'''. 

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|The window comprising the instructions appears. Read the instructions. 

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|To start the lesson, let us press the '''space-bar'''. 

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|The window displaying the keyboard, appears.

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|We will now start learning to type the letter 'a'. 

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|Press 'p' to start practicing. 

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|A window that displays the characters to type, appears. 

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|What does this line displaying ‘aaa aaa…..’ mean? 

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|You are required to type these letters.

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|Let us name this line as "Teacher’s line". 

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|We now see the English keyboard which is the standard keyboard used by 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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|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. 

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

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

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|You can press the '''Enter''' key to go to the next line.

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|The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, colon/semicolon and '''Caps Lock''' key. 

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|Use  the '''Caps Lock''' key to type capital letters. 

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

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|Press the '''shift''' key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters. 

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

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

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

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|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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|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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|Look at this slide. 

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|It displays the fingers and their names. Fingers, from left to right, are named: 

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| Little finger,Ring finger

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|Middle finger,Index finger and Thumb. 

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| On your keyboard place your left hand on the left side of the keyboard. 

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|Ensure that the Little finger is on the alphabet 'A', 

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|Ring finger is on the alphabet 'S', 

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|Middle finger on the alphabet 'D', 

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|Index finger on the alphabet 'F'. 

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

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|Ensure that the Little finger is on the colon/semi-colon keystroke, 

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|Ring finger on the alphabet 'L'

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|Middle finger on the alphabet 'K',

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|Index finger on the alphabet 'J'. 

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| Use your right thumb to press the space-bar.
 
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|The two hand images will guide you to use the right finger to type the character. 

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|Wondering what the red circle of the left-hand little finger is? 

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

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|Let us name this the '''Student’s line'''. 

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

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| Do you see that mistyped character displayed in the '''student’s line'''? It is not displayed. 

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|Instead, an 'X' mark briefly appears on the mistyped character on the keyboard. 

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|Let’s type a few more letters. 

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

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|By now, you would have guessed what the '''field'''s on the left hand side indicate.

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|'''Time''' – specifies the speed of your typing. 

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|'''Chars''' – indicates the number of characters typed by you. 

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|'''CPM''' - indicates the '''characters per minutes''' typed by you.

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|'''WPM''' – specifies the number of words typed by you. 

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|'''Errors''' – indicates the number of errors typed by you. 

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|'''Accuracy''' – indicates the accuracy of your typing. 

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|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. 

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

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

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|Here is an assignment for you. 

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|Switch to "basic_lesson_02.xml". 

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|Practice with this level. 

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

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|Similarly, you can practice different lessons. 

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| Watch the video available at the following link: http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial

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|It summarizes the '''Spoken Tutorial''' project. 

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|If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. 

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|The Spoken Tutorial Project team: 

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|Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. 

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|Gives certificates for those who pass an online test. 

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|For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org.
 
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|'''Spoken Tutorial''' project is a part of the '''Talk to a Teacher''' project. 

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

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|More information on this mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro. 

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| This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Thanks for joining.