GCompris
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GCompris is an free educational software for children aged 2 to 10. It has more than 100 activities related to:
- Computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
- Algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
- Science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation, ...
- Geography: place the country on the map
- Games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
- Reading: reading practice
- Other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, ...
GCompris is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (crippled) and other systems.
[edit] Development history
The first version of the game was made in 2000 by Bruno Coudoin, a french software engineer. Since the first release it was distributed freely on the Internet and was protected by the GPL Licence. The motivation behind the development was to provide native educational application for the GNU/Linux operating system. Since then, the software has seen continues improvements, in term of graphical and number of activities, thanks to the help of many developers and graphic artists joining the project over the years.
[edit] See also
- Childsplay [1] is a similar project.
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