Tux-Typing/S1/Getting-started-with-Tux-Typing/Gujarati
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
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00.00 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to Tux Typing. |
00.04 | In this tutorial you will learn about Tux Typing and 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 | Tuxtyping 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 | 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 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 capslock 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, 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 alphabet ‘A’, |
05.35 | Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’, |
05.38 | Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’, |
05.41 | Index finger on 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 character 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 |
08.33 | It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project |
08.36 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it |
08.41 | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team |
08.43 | Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. |
08.46 | Gives certificates for those who pass an online test |
08.50 | For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org |
08.56 | Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project |
09.00 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India |
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09.19 | This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.Thanks for joining |