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

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Learning Objectives

Learn to type phrases.
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Create your own list of words.

Get to know information about setting language for typing.

|| In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

Type phrases.

Create your own list of words.

Get to know information about setting 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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Click on Dash Home.
|| Let us open Tux Typing.

Click on Dash Home.

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|| In the Search box, type Tux Typing.
|| In the Search box, type Tux Typing.

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

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|| From the Main menu >> click Options.
|| From the Main menu, click Options.

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|| Point to Phrase Typing in the Internal menu.
|| The Options menu appears.

Now let’s practice typing phrases.

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|| Click Phrase Typing.
|| Click Phrase Typing.

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|| Type the sentence displayed in the teacher’s line.
|| Let us type the sentence displayed in the Teacher’s line.

In this case it is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.

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|| Now, we need to type the next sentence, should we not?

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|| Press Enter.
Point to the next sentence.
|| Press Enter.

The next sentence appears.

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We have now learnt to type sentences.

You can keep practicing with different sentences.

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|| Press Esc.
|| Let us now press Esc to return to the previous menu.

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|| Point to the Options menu.
|| The Options menu appears.

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Add New Words and Sentences
|| We will now learn to add new words and sentences.

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|| Switch to Tux Typing.
Click Edit Word Lists.
|| Click Edit Word Lists.

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|| Point to the Word List Editor window.
|| The Word List Editor window appears.

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|| Shall we enter a new word?

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|| In the Word List Editor window >> click NEW.
|| In the Word List Editor window, click NEW.

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|| Point to the Create a New Wordlist window.
|| The Create a New Wordlist window appears.

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|| In the Create a New Wordlist window, type Learn to Type.
|| In the Create a New Wordlist window, let us type Learn to Type.

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|| Click OK.
|| Click OK.

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|| Point to the Word List Editor window.
|| The Word List Editor window appears.

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|| Point to Remove.
|| We can remove the word or sentence typed, by clicking Remove.

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|| Click DONE.
|| Let’s click DONE to save the word or sentence and return to the Internal menu.

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|| Point to the Options menu.
|| The Options menu appears.



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You can setup language by clicking Setup language option from the Internal Menu.

The Tux Typing Interface and lessons will be displayed in the language you select.

However, currently Tux Typing does not support lessons in other languages.


|| You can setup language by clicking Setup language option from the Internal Menu.

The Tux Typing Interface and lessons will be displayed in the language you select.

However, currently Tux Typing does not support lessons in other languages.


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|| Switch to Tux Typing.
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|| Now let us play a game.

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|| Click the Main Menu button.
|| Click Main Menu.

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|| Click the Fish Cascade button.
|| Click the Fish Cascade button.

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|| Point to the Game menu.
|| The Game menu appears.

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|| Point to the Instructions button.
|| Before starting the game, let us read the instructions on how to play it.

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|| Click the Instructions button.
|| Click Instructions.

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|| Point to the Instructions window. (Pause for three seconds)
|| Read the instructions to play the game.

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|| Press the space bar.
|| To continue, let’s press the space bar.

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|| Point to the Easy submenu.
|| Let’s now select an easy game for us to practice typing.

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|| Click the Easy submenu.
|| Click Easy.

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|| Point to the different options window.
|| The window comprising different options appears.

The different options are names of colors, fruits, plants, and so on.

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|| Click the Trees option.
|| Click Colors.

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|| Fish fall from the sky. 

Each fish also has a letter on it.

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|| Type the words imprinted on the fish falling from the top of the screen.
|| If you type the words correctly, the word turns red and vanishes. 
Then, as the fish falls, the penguin runs to eat them.

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|| Type any character that is not a part of the word.
|| Now let’s type a character that is not part of a falling fish. 
What happens? 
The characters remain white indicating that you need to type it correctly.

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|| Continue playing this game as long as you wish.
<pause>

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|| Press the Escape button twice.
|| Press the Escape button twice to go back to the Games menu.
<pause>

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Assignment
Change the difficulty level to Medium or Hard and play the game.

|| Here is an assignment for you.
Change the difficulty level to Medium or Hard and play the game.


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Summary
In this tutorial we learnt to type phrases, add your own words, and play a game.

|| This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Tux Typing.
In this tutorial we learnt to type phrases, add our own words, and play a game.





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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

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

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*Watch the video available at the following link 

*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

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

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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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