OLPC Courseware Review

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Introduction

There is a body of Open Source courseware that already exists. Please evaluate these programs and write a detailed review on this page. If you know of a program that should be reviewed, add it to the list.

Note that some of these existing projects may need to be ported in order to be usable. For instance changing the GUI from KDE to GTK. Please note this in the reviews.

Courseware to be Reviewed

• Isard
• KSEG
• Dr. Geo, GTK+ interactive geometry

Detailed Reviews

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Isard

• Interactive Geometry
• "only works under VisualWorks". A non-commercial version of VW is available, but requires registration. So it seems a deal would be required. The VisualWorks product manager's email is on the webpage. Perhaps Isard might be ported to squeak.
• Manual.
• Direct manipulation + macros + smalltalk.
• Unclear if internationalized (but I haven't even looked at the source).

Dr. Geo;

• Interactive Geometry
• "Due to a lack of resources and time, I have decided to not maintain any more Dr. Geo. However it does not mean Dr. Geo will not evolve anymore, it is up to its users to do so. Therefore, if you think you can take over its maintenance, please do so and inform the Dr. Geo users throught its mailing list. Hilaire Fernandes, 20/10/2006". Is on sourceforge.
• Requires GTK and Guile.
• Manuals in Dutch,English,French,Italian,Spanish (but English is "completely out of date"). English google translation of the Spanish manual.
• Direct manipulation + macros + scheme.
• Internationalized.

KSEG;

• Interactive Geometry
• Requires Qt3.
• manual.
• Direct manipulation + macros. No programming language.
• Internationalized.