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Keyboard Training Software (for linux)A keyboard training program which I'm designing for my 9 year old son.
This is a keyboard training program (i.e. typing tutor) for touch typing, still in it's early days. Goals: - Open source and open community.
- Various languages supported (although not right to left nor logographic writing systems - ex. Kanji) (todo)
- Various international keyboards supported and probably dvorak keyboards as well. (todo)
- Attractive interface. (todo)
- Scalable graphics, make the window as small or as large as you like.
- Show the beginner typist where they should place their fingers. (todo)
- Interesting text for advanced users instead of just random gibberish. Will pull in text from Wikipedia entries, for various languages. (todo)
- Beginner levels will have random text, however, and they should focus on common bi-grams and trigrams of the language in question, to build up muscle memory for common key combinations. (todo)
- Random text should also start with very simple letter combinations, like two keys close together for training the first time. (todo)
- Stats and progression. (todo)
- Heatmap of trouble keys for the student. (todo)
- Auto build lessons to work on the trouble keys. (todo)
- Lessons for the number keys and punctuation marks. (todo)
- Start off without the space bar or the backspace key, add these keys later.
InstallationDownload the zip or fetch from mercurial. Install python-yaml sudo apt-get install python-yaml Install the program. cd key-train
sudo python setup.py install Run it. key-train DetailsThere will be a large variety of switches that can be toggled in the creation of levels: - Starting off.
- Some keys silently accepted or skipped (space, comma, enter). Ex. type the space and it skips if there is a space or types the space for your if you forget.
- Ability to accept accented characters without accent. If the user types a but it's supposed to be ã, accept it as if it was typed correctly.
- Ability to ignore incorrect capitalization.
- Switch to not allow continuation until the correct character has been typed.
- Advanced.
- Student can type and correct mistakes, shown in red.
- Copying
- The copy text and entered text are in separate windows. The input advances word by word based on what the user typed.
- User can correct errors (or not).
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