Tux-Typing/S1/Getting-started-with-Tux-Typing/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:00	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to Tux Typing.
00:04	In this tutorial, you will learn about Tux Typing and the Tux typing interface.
00:10	You will learn how to type
00:12	accurately, quickly and efficiently on a computer keyboard that has English alphabet keys.
00:19	You will also learn to type without having to look down at the keyboard every time you type.
00:25	What is Tux Typing?
00:27	Tux Typing is a typing tutor.
00:30	It teaches you how to type using interactive games and gradually introduces you to typing different characters.
00:38	You can learn typing at your own pace
00:41	and gradually increase your typing speed and along with it your accuracy.
00:46	Tux typing also enables you to enter new words for practice and set the language for typing.
00:54	Here, we are using Tux Typing 1.8.0 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
01:02	You can install Tux Typing using the Ubuntu Software Centre.
01:07	For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
01:16	Let’s open Tux Typing.
01:19	First, click Dash Home which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.
01:26	The Search box appears. In the Search box, next to Dash Home, type "Tux Typing".
01:34	The Tux Typing icon appears beneath the Search box.
01:39	Click the 'Tux Typing' icon.
01:42	The Tux Typing window appears.
01:46	The Tux Typing comprises the following menus:
01:50	Fish Cascade – a gaming zone Comet Zap – another gaming zone
01:56	Lessons – comprises different lessons that will teach us to learn characters.
02:01	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.
02:13	Quit – click to quit the game.
02:16	Let us practice to type using the Lessons.
02:20	In the Main menu, click Lessons.
02:23	The window comprising the lesson appears.
02:26	Let us start by learning the first lesson.
02:30	Click "basic_lesson_01.xml".
02:35	The window comprising the instructions appears. Read the instructions.
02:41	To start the lesson, let us press the space-bar.
02:45	The window displaying the keyboard, appears.
02:48	We will now start learning to type the letter 'a'.
02:52	Press 'p' to start practicing.
02:56	A window that displays the characters to type, appears.
03:01	What does this line displaying ‘aaa aaa…..’ mean?
03:07	You are required to type these letters.
03:10	Let us name this line as "Teacher’s line".
03:13	We now see the English keyboard which is the standard keyboard used by most of us.
03:19	Do you see the red square around 'A'? It indicates that it is the character that you have to type now.
03:27	The first line of the keyboard displays numerals, special characters and the backspace key.
03:35	You press the backspace key to delete typed characters.
03:39	The keyboard also has three rows of alphabets, numerals and other characters.
03:51	The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, few special characters and the Enter key.
03:58	You can press the Enter key to go to the next line.
04:02	The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, colon/semicolon and Caps Lock key.
04:10	Use the Caps Lock key to type capital letters.
04:14	The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters and shift keys.
04:21	Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.
04:27	Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.
04:34	For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.
04:39	To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.
04:44	The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt and Function keys. It also contains the space bar.
04:52	Now, let us see if there are differences between the Tux Typing keyboard, laptop keyboard and desktop keyboard.
05:00	Notice that the Tux Typing keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.
05:10	Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.
05:14	Look at this slide.
05:16	It displays the fingers and their names. Fingers, from left to right, are named:
05:21	Little finger,Ring finger
05:24	Middle finger,Index finger and Thumb.
05:27	On your keyboard place your left hand on the left side of the keyboard.
05:32	Ensure that the Little finger is on the alphabet 'A',
05:35	Ring finger is on the alphabet 'S',
05:38	Middle finger on the alphabet 'D',
05:41	Index finger on the alphabet 'F'.
05:44	Now, place your right hand on the right side of the keyboard.
05:49	Ensure that the Little finger is on the colon/semi-colon keystroke,
05:54	Ring finger on the alphabet 'L'
05:56	Middle finger on the alphabet 'K',
06:00	Index finger on the alphabet 'J'.
06:03	Use your right thumb to press the space-bar.
06:08	The two hand images will guide you to use the right finger to type the character.
06:14	Wondering what the red circle of the left-hand little finger is?
06:19	Your guess is right. You need to use that finger to type 'a'.
06:23	Place your fingers on the keyboard as indicated earlier in the lesson.
06:29	Now, let us start typing.
06:32	As we type, the characters are displayed in the line below the Teacher’s line.
06:39	Let us name this the Student’s line.
06:42	Now, let’s type a character that is not displayed in the teacher’s line.
06:47	Do you see that mistyped character displayed in the student’s line? It is not displayed.
06:53	Instead, an 'X' mark briefly appears on the mistyped character on the keyboard.
06:59	Let’s type a few more letters.
07:02	Now, let us collect the metrics of our typing.
07:07	By now, you would have guessed what the fields on the left hand side indicate.
07:13	Time – specifies the speed of your typing.
07:17	Chars – indicates the number of characters typed by you.
07:21	CPM - indicates the characters per minutes typed by you.
07:26	WPM – specifies the number of words typed by you.
07:31	Errors – indicates the number of errors typed by you.
07:34	Accuracy – indicates the accuracy of your typing.
07:40	Press the Escape key twice to go back to the main menu.
07:45	We have learnt our first typing lesson!
07:47	It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.
07:52	Once we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
07:59	This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Tux Typing.
08:03	In this tutorial, we learnt about the Tux Typing interface and completed our first typing lesson.
08:11	Here is an assignment for you.
08:13	Switch to "basic_lesson_02.xml".
08:19	Practice with this level.
08:21	Complete typing all the characters in this level and press the Enter key.
08:26	Similarly, you can practice different lessons.
08:30	Watch the video available at the following link: http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial
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08:36	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
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