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PROGRAM:
NAME
PLM - Cross-platform Programming Exerciser
SYNOPSIS
plm
DESCRIPTION
The Programmer's Learning Machine (PLM) is a free cross-platform programming exerciser. It
lets you explore various concepts of programming through interactive exercises, that you
can solve in either Java, python or scala (see below for the Scala suppport). The
interface and the whole content is througfully translated to English and French, and
mostly translated to Brazilian and Italian.
The following lessons are included in this package:
. Welcome: Teaches the basics of programming to absolute beginners
. Maze: Presentes some classical maze escaping algorithms for intermediate
. Sort: Focuses on the 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: Dives into classical logo algorithms for intermediate
. Turtle Art:
Presents a few classical LOGO figures; your imagination will certainly
explore this world further.
. LightBot: Constitutes a little programmer's brain teaser for intermediate and advanced
This program is released under the GNU General Public License, while the content is
released under the CC-BY-SA version. It requires Java version 1.6 or higher, either from
OpenJDK or from another vendor.
CONFIGURATION
PLM does not accept any command-line switch or options; every elements are configured
either through the user-defined property file, or within the graphical interface directly.
SCALA SUPPORT
The current Debian version (2.9) of scala is too ancient for the PLM, that requires at
least 2.10. The support for the Scala language was thus removed from the Debian package.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Please help us packaging the latest release of Scala if you
can.
FUTURE EVOLUTIONS
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. We
hope that the translation of the interface and content to other human languages will be
contributed by the community in the future.
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