Debian Junior typing packages

Bambam is a simple baby keyboard masher application that locks the keyboard and mouse and instead displays bright colors, pictures, and sounds.

Note: for safety it is recommended to run the game in a dedicated login session, rather than as an application in your regular session, especially when leaving your child unattended with the game. Look for session type BamBam in your display manager login screen.

Childsplay provides memory activities that are fun to play and at the same time learn sounds, images, letters and numbers; activities that train the child to use the mouse and keyboard and pure game activities like puzzles, pong, pacman and billiards.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Displays exercise lines, measures your typing speed and accuracy, and displays the results. Two exercise types are possible: drills and speed tests.

You need fortune cookies (fortune-cookie-db) to use typefortune. There are several languages specific cookie packages (fortunes-*).

Klavaro is a simple tutor to teach correct typing, almost independently of language and very flexible regarding to new or unknown keyboard layouts.

Its key features are:

• Internationalization
• Ready to use keyboard layouts
• Keyboard layout editor
• Basic course
• Adaptability, velocity and fluidness exercises
• Progress charts.

KTouch is an aid for learning how to type with speed and accuracy. It provides a sample text to type and indicates which fingers should be used for each key.

A collection of lessons are included for a wide range of different languages and keyboard layouts, and typing statistics are used to dynamically adjust the level of difficulty.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

pySioGame is a set of educational activities and games for children aged between 3 and 10. The activities are grid based and can be played all in a single window. pySioGame includes maths, reading, writing, painting, and memory activities.

TuxTyping 是一个以 Linux 小企鹅 Tux 为主角的用于打字练习的教育游戏。玩家通 过打字让游戏中的 Tux 接住从屏幕顶部落下的一条条鱼。每条鱼身上都有一个字母， 当玩家按下相应的键时，Tux 会跑到相应的位置将鱼接住吃掉。本游戏意在训练儿童 学习打字，不过也提供了较高难度的级别供熟练打字者进行挑战。