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Learn Words 0.1
Learn Words project is a tool for teaching words in foreign languages. more>>
Once words and their meanings have been entered, the computer quizzes you and shows how many errors you made.
Main features:
- Dictionary quick searching
- Thumbnail view
Enhancements:
- Learn words from mini dictionary
- Full mini dictionary opening, editing and saving support
- Set tab at saving and doesnt ask filename again + save as... function.
- Minidict edit & save support
- Gnome menu
KLearnNotes2 1.2
KLearnNotes2 is a software for teaching the names of music notes. more>>
In future KLearnNotes2 will be a full-featured music teacher (rhythm, scales, key signatures, chords) with special focus on guitar playing.
Main features:
- a wise quick learning algorithm (focusing training on what a student knows the worst)
- a flexible lesson choice and a set of preset lessons focused on gradual learning of successive notes
- bass and treble clefs
- a flexible speed goal choice and a set of preset speed-goal levels (to encourage training for fast, automatic notes reading)
- two training modes:
- static, vertical notes positions (preparation for chord reading)
- horizontal, game-style (preparation for sight-reading)
- voice recognition (you can answer questions with your voice!)
- sound output choice: standard, for guitar players or custom
- qt/kdelibs; midi sound output for OSS or using timidity (any system) or ALSA (experimental! using tse3 library); voice recognition from microphone (OSS only).
- Perfect for a music newbie and for an experienced musician trying to learn new stuff (for example a new staff.
Enhancements:
Thu May 12 09:58:57 CET 2004
- src/kln* major: added horizontal exercise ("game")
- added first trial of midi for aRts/tse3
- added configure option --with-cvsfeatures
- added kln2 option --quiet (or -q)
Sun Apr 11 06:25:55 2004 UTC
- src/* major: added Solfeggio notes naming
Sun Mar 7 00:40:55 CET 2004
- src/* major: first version of PianoKeyboard and
- BaseMusicNote classes
Mon Mar 1 01:46:28 CET 2004
- src/* major: added timidity MIDI output; new MidiOutput
- class, ready for implementing other supports
Mon Feb 23 00:30:46 +0000
- src/voice_recog* minor: fixed compilation problems:
- variable-size array prefetch_buf
- pointer of type `void * used in arithmetic
Tuxlearnnotes 0.1
Tuxlearnnotes is an educational music arcade game. more>>
Tux Learn Notes is the open source voice controled educational arcade game. You will control tux with your musical instrument/ voice via the computer sound card or by midi and makes points when you hit the correct pitch.
(This game still in very early stages of deveploment)
eLearniX 2.6.6
eLearniX is a bootable CD desktop environment to help people learn and use Linux. more>>
It features the latest 2.6 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.4, lots of applications, and an install script to install to a dedicated hard drive or a 256MB+ Compact Flash card.
MyLang 1.2
MyLang project is a vocabulary trainer. more>>
It allows you to learn whole set of words in an efficient and convenient way.
It supports multiple translations of words, keeps track of your progress, and has a built in dictionary editor that greatly simplifies dealing with languages that use different keyboard layouts.
Learn HTML By Example 1.03
Learn HTML By Example is a sweet little JavaScript / HTML program. more>>
To install the program, just download it from Web Design Factory, and upload it to your web site.
Main features:
- Easy installation. Just upload to your web site and youre done!
- Immediate feedback on testing HTML and CSS code
- Several examples of commonly used HTML and CSS elements
- No page refreshing required
- Easy to expand by adding new examples
Esteban 0.5
Esteban is a chatbot developed with AIML more>>
Esteban is also meant to introduce the concept of free software to teachers who dont have programming skills.
Exam4Fun 0.5
Exam4Fun is a full-featured program that helps you learn new language/vocabulary. more>>
Exam4Fun 0.5 is a full-featured program that helps you learn new language/vocabulary. It is designed to be flexible and to fit to different kind of exam. You can create your own exam and take the exam in different ways(Identification, Flashcard, Multiple Choice).
Enhancements:
- Added multiple choice exam
- Updated the ordering of selected topics
- Revised exam summary report
- Fixed exam editor not displaying unknown word type in wrong choices table
- Renamed "Hardcopy" Exam to "Print out"
Requirements: Java 5 is required.
<<lessLoro 0.8pre7
Loro project is an open system (language and IDE) intended to help beginners learn to program. more>>
It uses its own programming language and includes an integrated development environment system focused on first-year students.
The language features a "specify, then implement" methodology; you have to specify a task before writing any implementation (algorithm).
Specification is an explict, compilable construction to make a contract between suppliers and clients, and can be implemented in either Loro or Java (via BeanShell).
The IDE features support for test-driven developing, syntax highlighting, and automatic HTML documentation generation and visualization.
Enhancements:
- fixed: string "method" was missing
OO Learning Evaluation GO 0.1.3
OO Learning Evaluation GO is an object-oriented platform and algorithms for the game of GO. more>>
It aims to provide a capable engine that can learn through experience and a re-usable algorithmic framework for the rapid development of new GO-playing engines.
Enhancements:
- Reorganization of the code was started so that various learnable evaluation functions can be used easily.
- Learning is currently tested in the GoPlayer module.
- The learned function simply learns to imitate the current static function.
XELand 1.0 RC3
XELand project generates night landscapes as stereo pairs for cross-eye viewing. more>>
The program requires only JDK 1.5 or above, and is very easy to use. To take full advantage of XEland you should learn cross-eye viewing.
Main features:
- Simple to use
- Two terrain generation methods
- Exports maps to png files
- Generates seamless maps
- Uses StupidRendering techonogy
Leafpad 0.8.11
Leafpad is a GTK+ based simple text editor. more>>
Main features:
- Minimum requirement: for portability
- Minimum menu item: to make full use of features and to learn easily
- No toolbar: to maximize area to view text
- Single document interface (SDI): to set out windows to view at a time
- Character encoding auto detection: to open file quickly without multi-codeset annoyance
ClanBomber2 0.9
ClanBomber is a free (GPL) Bomberman-like multiplayer game that uses ClanLib, a free multi platform C++ game SDK. more>>
But the ClanBomber project has grown into a real game. It is fully playable and features Computer controlled bombers, however, it is recommended to play ClanBomber with friends (3-8 players are really fun).
kannasaver 1.1.1
kannasaver is a screensaver for people who want to learn japanese. more>>
Inspired by a windows screensaver that does exactly the same, which sits an www.thejapanesepage.com for free.
Dependencies: Other than KDE 3.3, you need to have soft-scalable (truetype) fonts that contain the japanese characters. Google for the mikachan font set if anything else fails.
Enhancements:
- a few composite katakana were wrong; corrected.

FlashQard 0.12.0
flashqard is an educational software. It uses Leitner System to help you memorize information. more>>
FlashQard helps you to learn any subject that can be learned via a question and answer format.
You write a question on a card and the answer overleaf in formatted text. You can also insert as many pictures as you wish.
The reviewing method is known as the Leitner system, proposed by Sebastian Leitner in 1970s.
This method is a well known and widely used mothod to efficiently use flash cards and to reduce the amount of study time needed.
FlashQard can read your card's text (text-to-speech) as you go through your cards.