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* THE TOUCH TYPING TUTOR *
* (C) COPYRIGHT D.F.W.SETCHFIELD 1989 *
* WRITTEN IN GFA BASIC '89 *
This Programme Is NOT Public Domain
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This programme has been written to help people wanting to learn the skill of
touch typing and over the past year I have been improving it so that it has
everything (hopefully) that you would need.
In order to start learning how to touch-type you need to select one of the
exercises from the "Exercises" menu - from this menu there are five different
exercises. The first four of them teaches you the different positions of the
characters on the keyboard and which finger you should use. Whilst you are
doing an exercise the computer is checking for any errors you may have made and
also the time it takes you to complete it. With all four exercises you will be
shown an image of a keyboard and a pair of hands on the screen. During the
exercises an arrow will appear on top of a finger and a character will be
high-lighted on the keyboard, the arrow shows you the correct hand and finger
to press the high-lighted character shown. Exercise five is for people who
think that they don't need any help from the computer, and unlike the other
exercises you are tested on all the characters on the keyboard in the form of
nursery rhymes.
Other options that I have recently added to this "ever-growing" programme can
be found in the "Options" menu. These new options give you the ablility to use
all character cases (upper and lower case), the ablility to create some new
exercises with a save and load option and also a metronome option so that you
can keep in rhythmic typing.
To end this programme I included an option to display your results along with
the amount of mistakes you made and also some previously saved results in a
graph. You can scroll through the graph in blocks of ten with the keys "<" and
">" and the spacebar to get back to the main screen.
Well, this is the first main and most useful "Compiled" GFA basic programme I
have written and I hope there will be many more to come!
Daniel Setchfield 1990