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Latest revision as of 17:01, 23 March 2017

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
08:33 It summarizes 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.
09:08 More information on this mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro.
09:19 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Thanks for joining.

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