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- * THE TOUCH TYPING TUTOR *
- * (C) COPYRIGHT D.F.W.SETCHFIELD 1989 *
- * WRITTEN IN GFA BASIC '89 *
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- 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!
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- Daniel Setchfield 1990
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