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CMDTYPIST
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It is a programmer oriented command line typing tutor written in c,
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designed to work on the gnome-terminal, xterm and uxterm and other consoles. It
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consists true programming lessons, so the user can type and learn at the same time.
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License
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Author
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Chiatiah Calson
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General Features
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Extremely fast, never again type faster than your type tutor!!!
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CMDTYPIST comes bundled with a good number of lessons for both programmers
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and non-programmers. The non programmer lessons help train the user on
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basic typing techiques and the programmer lessons help both the programmer
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and non programmers to become better at typing.
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An accurate speed algorithm in character per minute (CPM) and an approximate
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in word per minute WPM (accuracy -+0.35)
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Terminal is manipulated to print green a correct character and red a wrong
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character. This makes cmdtypist command line tutor very appealing. The user
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easily knows where he has gone wrong and can undo all errors.
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Keeps a record of the number of wrong and correct characters; cmdtypist is able
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tracks the number of wrong characters and displays at the end of each session.
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Creates a text file to keep a account of the user speed in details(date,
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numer of errors, speed in CPM and WPM and time elapsed) for each session. Hence,
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the user can always keep track of his typing speed from the very first day.
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NOTE: cmdtypist makes a periodic check once a month, on the size of the
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speed.info file, and when it has reached a certain length, on a confirmed prompt
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will automatically rename or delete the the existing file and hen create a new one.
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CMDTYPIST equally contains a "myown.txt" file, where a user can input an optional
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text he wants to type. With myown.txt, the user is limited to typing only in
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standard mode.
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Command Line Features
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The user can choose to type in random mode where a random block is each
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session is chosen from selected lesson.
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And in standard mode, the user types chronologically as the lesson is in
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the lesson file.
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The user can chose to modify any lesson in the lesson file easily.
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For a user who will not love to modify the lesson file, a my_own.txt file
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is available for the user to paste his text file he wants to type.
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NOTE: Text file should contain only ascii 7 bits characters. For this reason,
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user text may some times look absurd when contains extended ascii characters
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since program has a function to ignore such characters.
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User also can choose to receive a beep for any wrong character typed (may
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not work on all terminals)
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Program has the ability to remember all past settings.
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Terminal is manipulated so a user can erase characters right to the beginning
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of the session line(timing reset) For each wrong character erased, number of
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errors is decremented by one.
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User session timing starts only when he types a first character (wrong or
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correct)
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If the user erases to the beginning of the session, time is reset to zero
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and starts only as described above.
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The last line of each lesson session is marked blue, so user is aware and
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can take time to review speed details befor estarting the following lesson.
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