New educational software in Debian: PLM
[Please CC me as I'm not on this list]
Hello,
as an upstream author and debian packager, I'd like to bring a new
piece of software to your attention. PLM (the Programmer's Learning
Machine) recently landed into Debian.
I think that some people on this list could be interested, and I
warmly welcome any feedback.
Thanks for your time, Mt.
Description-en: Programming exerciser in Java, Python, Scala and others
The Programmer's Learning Machine (PLM) is a free cross-platform programming
exerciser. It lets you explore various concepts of programming through
over 160 interactive exercises, that you can solve in either Java,
Python or Scala.
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The PLM interface and content is througfully translated to English
and French; we hope that other translations will be contributed in
the future.
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The following concepts are included in this package:
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- Welcome: teach basics of programming to absolute beginners
- Maze: classical maze escaping algorithms for intermediate
- Sort: classical sorting algorithms for intermediate. One
introduction lesson presents the basics of the sorting algorithms
while two additional lessons apply them in more recreative settings.
- Recursion: classical logo algorithms for intermediate
- Turtle Art: explore a few classical LOGO figures
- LightBot: little programmer's brain teaser for intermediate and advanced
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Other lessons are planned to explore new concepts, such as the
backtracking, dynamic programming, object-oriented programming or the
standard libraries of python and Java. Other programming languages
(such as Ruby or JavaScript) may be added in the future.
http://webloria.loria.fr/~quinson/Teaching/PLM/
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/plm.html
https://github.com/oster/PLM
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