1 00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to Tux Typing. 2 00:00:04 --> 00:00:09 In this tutorial you will learn about Tux Typing and Tux typing interface. 3 00:00:10 --> 00:00:11 You will learn how to type: 4 00:00:12 --> 00:00:18 Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard that has English alphabet keys. 5 00:00:19 --> 00:00:24 You will also learn to type, Without having to look down at the keyboard every time you type. 6 00:00:25 --> 00:00:26 What is Tux Typing? 7 00:00:27 --> 00:00:29 Tux Typing is a typing tutor. 8 00:00:30 --> 00:00:37 It teaches you how to type using interactive games and gradually introduces you to typing different characters. 9 00:00:38 --> 00:00:40 You can learn typing at your own pace. 10 00:00:41 --> 00:00:45 And gradually increase your typing speed and along with it your accuracy. 11 00:00:46 --> 00:00:53 Tuxtyping also enables you to enter new words for practice and set the language for typing. 12 00:00:54 --> 00:01:01 Here, we are using Tux Typing 1.8.0 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10. 13 00:01:02 --> 00:01:06 You can install Tux Typing using the Ubuntu Software Centre. 14 00:01:07 --> 00:01:15 For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website. 15 00:01:16 --> 00:01:18 Let’s open Tux Typing. 16 00:01:19 --> 00:01:25 First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop. 17 00:01:26 --> 00:01:33 The Search box appears. In the Search box, next to Dash Home, type Tux Typing. 18 00:01:34 --> 00:01:38 The Tux Typing icon appears beneath the Search box. 19 00:01:39 --> 00:01:41 Click the Tux Typing icon. 20 00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 The Tux Typing window appears. 21 00:01:46 --> 00:01:49 Tux Typing comprises the following menus: 22 00:01:50 --> 00:01:55 Fish Cascade – A gaming zone Comet Zap – Another gaming zone 23 00:01:56 --> 00:02:00 Lessons – Comprises different lessons that will teach us to learn characters. 24 00:02:01 --> 00:02:12 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. 25 00:02:13 --> 00:02:15 Quit – Click to quit the game. 26 00:02:16 --> 00:02:19 Let us practice to type using the lessons. 27 00:02:20 --> 00:02:22 In the Main menu, click Lessons. 28 00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 The window comprising the lesson appears. 29 00:02:26 --> 00:02:29 Let us start by learning the first lesson. 30 00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 Click basic_lesson_01.xml. 31 00:02:35 --> 00:02:40 The window comprising the instructions appears.Read the instructions. 32 00:02:41 --> 00:02:44 To start the lesson, let us press the space bar. 33 00:02:45 --> 00:02:47 The window displaying the keyboard appears. 34 00:02:48 --> 00:02:51 We will now start learning to type the letter a. 35 00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 Press p to start practicing. 36 00:02:56 --> 00:03:00 A window that displays the characters to type appears. 37 00:03:01 --> 00:03:06 What does this line displaying ‘aaa aaa…..’ mean? 38 00:03:07 --> 00:03:09 You are required to type these letters. 39 00:03:10 --> 00:03:12 Let us name this line as Teacher’s line. 40 00:03:13 --> 00:03:18 We now see the English keyboard which is the standard keyboard used most of us. 41 00:03:19 --> 00:03:26 Do you see the red square around a? It indicates that it is the character that you have to type now. 42 00:03:27 --> 00:03:34 The first line of the keyboard displays numerals special characters and the backspace key. 43 00:03:35 --> 00:03:38 You press the backspace key to delete typed characters. 44 00:03:39 --> 00:03:50 The keyboard also has three rows of alphabets, numerals and other characters. 45 00:03:51 --> 00:03:57 The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Enter key. 46 00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 You can press the Enter key to go to the next line. 47 00:04:02 --> 00:04:09 The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, colon/semicolon, and capslock key. 48 00:04:10 --> 00:04:13 Use the Caps Lock key to type capital letters. 49 00:04:14 --> 00:04:20 The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys. 50 00:04:21 --> 00:04:26 Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters. 51 00:04:27 --> 00:04:33 Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key. 52 00:04:34 --> 00:04:38 For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top. 53 00:04:39 --> 00:04:43 To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1. 54 00:04:44 --> 00:04:51 The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys. It also contains the space bar. 55 00:04:52 --> 00:04:59 Now let us see if there are differences between the Tux Typing keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard. 56 00:05:00 --> 00:05:09 Notice that the Tux Typing keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar. 57 00:05:10 --> 00:05:13 Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard. 58 00:05:14 --> 00:05:15 Look at this slide. 59 00:05:16 --> 00:05:20 It displays the fingers and their names. Fingers, from left to right, are named: 60 00:05:21 --> 00:05:26 Little finger, Ring finger, Middle finger, Index finger and Thumb. 61 00:05:27 --> 00:05:31 On your keyboard place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard. 62 00:05:32 --> 00:05:34 Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’, 63 00:05:35 --> 00:05:37 Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’, 64 00:05:38 --> 00:05:40 Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’, 65 00:05:41 --> 00:05:43 Index finger on alphabet ‘F’. 66 00:05:44 --> 00:05:48 Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard. 67 00:05:49 --> 00:05:53 Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colon keystroke, 68 00:05:54 --> 00:05:55 Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L 69 00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’, 70 00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’. 71 00:06:03 --> 00:06:07 Use your right thumb to press the space bar. 72 00:06:08 --> 00:06:13 The two hand images will guide you to use the right finger to type the character. 73 00:06:14 --> 00:06:18 Wondering what the red circle of the left-hand little finger is? 74 00:06:19 --> 00:06:22 Your guess is right. You need to use that finger to type a. 75 00:06:23 --> 00:06:28 Place your fingers on the keyboard as indicated earlier in the lesson. 76 00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 Now, let us start typing. 77 00:06:32 --> 00:06:38 As we type, the characters are displayed in the line below the Teacher’s line. 78 00:06:39 --> 00:06:41 Let us name this the Student’s line. 79 00:06:42 --> 00:06:46 Now let’s type a character that is not displayed in the teacher’s line. 80 00:06:47 --> 00:06:52 Do you see that mistyped character displayed in the student’s line?It is not displayed. 81 00:06:53 --> 00:06:58 Instead an X mark briefly appears on the mistyped character on the keyboard. 82 00:06:59 --> 00:07:01 Let’s type a few more letters. 83 00:07:02 --> 00:07:06 Now let us collect the metrics of our typing. 84 00:07:07 --> 00:07:12 By now you would have guessed what the fields on the left hand side indicate. 85 00:07:13 --> 00:07:16 Time – Specifies the speed of your typing 86 00:07:17 --> 00:07:20 Chars – Indicates the number of characters typed by you 87 00:07:21 --> 00:07:25 CPM- indicates the character per minutes typed by you. 88 00:07:26 --> 00:07:30 WPM – Specifies the number of words typed by you 89 00:07:31 --> 00:07:33 Errors – Indicates the number of errors typed by you 90 00:07:34 --> 00:07:39 Accuracy – Indicates the accuracy of your typing 91 00:07:40 --> 00:07:44 Press the Escape key twice to go back to the main menu. 92 00:07:45 --> 00:07:46 We have learnt our first typing lesson! 93 00:07:47 --> 00:07:51 It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds. 94 00:07:52 --> 00:07:58 Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed. 95 00:07:59 --> 00:08:02 This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Tux Typing. 96 00:08:03 --> 00:08:10 In this tutorial we learnt about the Tux Typing interface and completed our first typing lesson. 97 00:08:11 --> 00:08:12 Here is an assignment for you. 98 00:08:13 --> 00:08:18 Switch to basic_lesson_02.xml. 99 00:08:19 --> 00:08:20 Practice with this level. 100 00:08:21 --> 00:08:25 Complete typing all the characters in this level and press the Enter key. 101 00:08:26 --> 00:08:29 Similarly you can practice different lessons. 102 00:08:30 --> 00:08:32 Watch the video available at the following link http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial 103 00:08:33 --> 00:08:35 It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project 104 00:08:36 --> 00:08:40 If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it 105 00:08:41 --> 00:08:42 The Spoken Tutorial Project Team 106 00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. 107 00:08:46 --> 00:08:49 Gives certificates for those who pass an online test 108 00:08:50 --> 00:08:55 For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org 109 00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project 110 00:09:00 --> 00:09:07 It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India 111 00:09:08 --> 00:09:18 More information on this Mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro 112 00:09:19 --> 00:09:24 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. 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