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Re: ITP: pysycache-- Educational game to teach children to move the mouse



On Tuesday 12 June 2007 09:21, Marcus Better <marcus@better.se> wrote:
> José L. Redrejo wrote:
> > The activities make children practice on clicking, double-clicking, drag
> > and drop, moving and identify the mouse buttons.
>
> Since children probably learn this by age five or so with or without help,
> perhaps the author should focus on making a similar tool for adults
> instead. :-)

The GIMP is a good tool for teaching young children about these things.  The 
color selection part of the toolbar allows dragging the color to the desktop 
background or the title-bar and using the brush for painting teaches mouse 
control.

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