Re: [seul-edu] Re: unix typing tutor

[Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jeff@smluc.org>]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, jeff covey wrote:

> >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net> writes:
> 
>     jeff> http://linux.umbc.edu/gits/typing-tutor.html
> 
>     Doug> Since it's a project rather than a working program, I'd
>     Doug> prefer to list it under either our projects page or our
>     Doug> links page.  Do you have a preference?
> 
> a link on the projects page would be great, thanks.
> 
> 

Do you all know about the dvorak typing tutor for ncurses called

dvorak7min ?

It's by Ragnar Hojland  (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org) and it's GPL'ed.

It seems this would be a good code base to draw from.  If you set up some
type plugin modules for keyboard mapping it could training typing for
foriegn mapped keyboards I think....

Here's the .lsm file:

Begin3
Title:           Dvorak 7min Tutor
Version:         1.4
Entered-date:    25MAY99
Description:     A ncurses based dvorak typing tutor
Keywords:        dvorak typing tutor ncurses
Author:          Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)
                 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Primary-site:    http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/dvorak7min-1.4.tar.gz
Alternate-site:  metalab.unc.edu
                 58kB dvorak7min-1.4.tar.gz
Copying-policy:  GPL
End

Hope that is helpful....

Sincerely,

Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org