Applications: Education

Educational Applications

These applications may also appear in other categories. What they have in common is that they are particularly relevant to educational purposes, from Kindergarten to university level.

Educational apps A

Abstrakt

DuckDuckGo abstracts one fingertip away

Desktop App that shows the Abstract / Definition text from DuckDuckGo Instant Answers.

Al-Anvar

A Quran Study Software

Al-Anvar is a cross-platform Quran Study Software. It uses "Tanzil.net" and "Zekr.org" database as its database.

Arianna

EPub Reader for mobile devices

An ebook reader and library management app supporting '.epub' files. Arianna discovers your books automatically, and sorts them by categories, genres and authors.

Educational apps B

BeOhms

Ohm's Law calculator

BeOhms is a calculator that is based of of Ohm's Law. This calculator solves either voltage, resistance, or current, given two of the variables.

Educational apps C

Celestia

The free space simulation for exploring our universe in 3 dimensions

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

Colobot

An educational real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics

A a real-time strategy game, where you can program your units (bots) in a language called CBOT, which is similar to C++ and Java. Your mission is to find a new planet to live and survive. You can save the humanity and get programming skills!

Educational apps F

firststeps

An example to create a first steps system info

An example to create a first steps in Haiku system info. All needed links to informations, mailing lists, development and a little tour through Haiku with the specific parts of Haiku.

Educational apps G

GCompris

Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for kids

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

GoldenDict

Dictionary lookup program

GoldenDict is a feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd/AARD/MDict/SDict) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.

Educational apps K

Kids

Little games for kids between 3 and 5 years

A collection of little games for my son (4 years old) to learn and play on his laptop. Press ESC for the game menu to close KIDS.

KTechLab

IDE for microcontrollers and electronics

KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed microcontroller together with its application circuit.

KTouch

Touch typing tutor

KTouch is a typewriter trainer for learning to touch type. It provides you with text to train on and adjusts to different levels depending on how good you are. It displays your keyboard and indicates which key to press next and which is the correct finger to use. You learn typing with all fingers, step by step, without having to look down at the keyboard to find your keys. It is convenient for all ages and the perfect typing tutor for schools, universities, and personal use. KTouch ships with dozens of different courses in many languages and a comfortable course editor. Different keyboard layouts are supported and new user-defined layouts can be created. During training, KTouch collects comprehensive statistical information to help you or your teacher to analyze your progress.

Educational apps L

LibrePCB

Design Schematics and PCBs

LibrePCB is a free EDA software to develop printed circuit boards. Key Features:

Cross-platform (Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
All-in-one (project management, library/schematic/board editors)
Intuitive, modern and easy-to-use graphical user interface
Very powerful library design with some innovative concepts
Human-readable file formats

Lingua

A multiple language translation utility

Lingua is a multiple language translation utility. It translates simple words and phrases to and from English into several languages, including Latin, German, Dutch, Italian, French etc.

Educational apps M

Marble

A virtual globe and world atlas

Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual globe which lets you quickly explore places on our home planet. You can use Marble to look up addresses, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet. The user interface is clean, simple and easy to use.

Educational apps S

ScriptureGuide

Bible study tool that supports a wide variety of Bibles

ScriptureGuide is a Bible study tool. It supports all of the features you'd expect: search, setting the font, taking notes, etc. Through the accompanying ScriptureGuideManager app, you can download hundreds of free copies of various Bibles, commentaries, and related books.

SimulIDE

Real Time Electronic Circuit Simulator

SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator, intended for hobbyist or students to learn and experiment with simple electronic circuits and microcontrollers, supporting PIC, AVR and Arduino. This is not an accurate simulator for circuit analysis, it aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, this means simple and not very accurate electronic models and limited features. Simplicity and ease of use are the key features of this simulator. You can create, simulate and interact with your circuits within minutes, just drag components from the list, drop into the circuit, connect them and push power button to see how it works. SimulIDE also features a code Editor and Debugger for GcBasic, Arduino, PIC asm and AVR asm. It is still in it's firsts stages of development, with basic functionalities, but it is possible to write, compile and basic debugging with breakpoints, watch registers and global variables.

Step

Interactive physics simulator

Step is an interactive physical simulator. It allows you to explore the physical world through simulations. It works like this: you place some bodies on the scene, add some forces such as gravity or springs, then click Simulate and Step shows you how your scene will evolve according to the laws of physics. You can change every property of the bodies/forces in your experiment (even during simulation) and see how this will change evolution of the experiment. With Step you cannot only learn but feel how physics works!

Educational apps T

Tipster

An application to display Haiku usage tips

Display brief but informative hints relating to interesting features about Haiku and their usage. It can be embedded as Replicant onto the Desktop and slideshow through the tips at a set interval. Clicking on the category icon shown beside the tip opens a web page related to the tip's topic.

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