Applications: Education

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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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.