Projects tagged ‘education’ and ‘kids’

Tux Paint is a simple and entertaining drawing program geared towards young children. It has a simple interface, sound effects, and a cartoon character (Tux, the Linux penguin). Along with drawing ... [More] brush strokes, lines and shapes, you can also enter text and place "rubber stamp" (or "sticker") images on the picture. Tux Paint is extensible, and could be useful in an educational environment (such as a grammar, elementary, or grade school). It's portable across numerous platforms, and runs well even on slower systems like the Pentium 133MHz. [Less]

Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source game design program for kids and adults. The focus is to make the process of creating games and worlds easy enough for kids but powerful ... [More] enough to create full game projects. Sandbox is already being used in many schools and colleges throughout the world. See it in action! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44Ww2bg2_E With all the goodies of the cube 2 engine, WYSIWYG map editing, high efficiency rates, inexpensive algorithms for beautiful effects, and the octree world structure. The project itself is intended more as a base for further expansion, as of this writing, sandbox ships both incomplete (but alas, functional) FPS (first person shooter) and SSP (side scrolling platformer) modules for users to play with, and build upon [Less]

learn mouse with fun - for kids/children

If you are looking for the open source companion software for the WeeHack kids programming course, it will be presented here.

Tuga Turtle is a simple turtle graphics programming system I designed for my son. It uses the Ruby programming language which can be expressed in simple forms. On the plus side, Ruby is also a ... [More] language used professionally for web programming and in many other fashions. Here's an example of a simple program that draws a green square: color green 4.times do turn right walk 500 endTuga Turtle can be launched as a Java Web Start application, but it uses local storage in files, so it needs user permissions. This project is available as public domain. I've just chosen Apache License 2.0 because that was an option for hosting at Google. [Less]

Hangman For KidsHangman For Kids with community created word list Hosted on Google App Engine. Also a place for submitting and sharing educational resources for kids. FeaturesGreat Learning tool for ... [More] Kids Kids friendly User interface Easy Three words list. Create your own list and share with others Todo ListAllow owners to Update/Edit the list Customer comments on list Upcoming EnhancementsSound Effects More appealing graphics for kids Tagging of word list Kids related resource repository Known IssuesSee the issues list Looking For DevelopersI am looking for some with basic programming knowledge and someone who wants to learn python, javascirpt or google app engine. Please drop me an email. [Less]

The 50+ demo applications of the turtle module of Python are intended as examples for using Python and turtlegraphics in an educational setting. Since the turtle module offers a lot of features that ... [More] go far beyond of what is known as classical turtle graphics, the examples comprise a wide range of scripts from elementary to rather sophisticated, from drawing graphical patterns to simulation of planetary systems or interacive games like spaceship or tangram. A demoViewer is included that lets you view the source code and execute the demo scripts in parallel. The turtle demo suite for Python 2.5/2.6 contains a backport of version 1.1 of the turtle module, which ships with python 3.1 to python 2.5 and python 2.6. If you use one of these versions, I recommend to replace the turtle module present in your version by the one delivered with this bundle. (Please note the README file) If you like to provide new examples or amend existing ones, please ask me for including you as a commiter of the project. Feedback is very much appreciated: gregor.lingl@gmail.com Gregor Lingl [Less]

Tools written by staff and friends of Stratolab, for teaching programming to middle school kids.

xturtle.py is a new turtle graphics module, which could (or should?) replace the old turtle.py - if not in python's standard distribution so at least in practical work. ;-) It's intended to be used ... [More] in those educational situations, where an important requirement is EASY ACCESS TO GRAPHICS. It was designed on the basis of many years of teaching introductory courses into programming in Austrian highschools. Turtle graphics is an excellent means for visualizing programming concepts from the very beginning to rather advanced concepts. (This was the reason, why Gregor Lingl used turtle graphics as the central tool for his book "Python für Kids", although python's original turtle.py module has rather limited capabilities.) You can find the website of the book "Python für Kids" at http://python4kids.net/ [Less]

Adobe AIR Game to help kids get comfortable with the keyboard. The goal is to prevent the alphabet stream from growing by pressing the alphabet at the head of the stream. If the stream reaches the other end of the screen -- the Game is over.