Projects tagged ‘graphics’ 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]

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]

Inspired by Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) and implemented using Python (http://python.org) and PyGame (http://pygame.org), this project aspires to be a way to make Python approachable for children ... [More] of all ages, but specifically targeting 6-12 year olds. The goal is to make it easy for them to get started with a graphical environment and get things moving and reacting in that environment, and to make it easy to share their projects with others. A parallel goal is to allow them to use the full repertoire of Python, without dumbing it down. [Less]

Over the years I've built up quite a lot of example code, small projects, and even larger projects, which may be of use to others. This will be a place to share those with others.

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]