This Project contains several packages which might be interesting for educational use.

This Project contains several packages which might be interesting for educational use.

In essence, Beans Binding (JSR 295) is about keeping two properties
(typically of two objects) in sync. An additional emphasis is placed on
the ability to bind to Swing components, and easy integration with IDEs
such as NetBeans. This project provides the reference implementation.

The ghmessen program is targeted at school use. It provides a program to collect data and display graphs and work with data and graphs. It can be used with different computer measuring interfaces.
Currently it supports various CASSY(tm) modules and the xray tube by LD Didactic GmbH.
CASSY is a trademark owned by LD Didactic GmbH.

GtkExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUI's for the Xwindows system using GTK+. You can use it complementary to GTK+ and it is written in C. It is also Free Software and released under the LGPL license.

This package contains the java hamster simulator by D. Boles.

This package contains the hamster simulator struktogram editor
for the hamster simulator by D. Boles.

This package contains the light version of the
java hamster simulator by D. Boles.

iTALC is a powerful software for Linux-networks, which was especially developed
for working with computers in school. But it can be also used in other
learning-environments. iTALC is a software for teachers using the computer
as didactical tool in their lessons. It aims to be a complete replacement for
expensive commercial software like MasterEye (tm).

iTALC makes it possible, to access and influence the pupils activities from the
computer of the teacher. This way iTALC supports the work with modern
equipment in school.
For example the teacher is able to see the content of the pupils screens on his
screen. If a student needs help, the teacher can access his desktop and
give support while sitting in front of his computer. The pupil can watch all
activities, the teacher is doing on his desktop. So the he can learn new
processes.

If you want to teach the pupils completely new stuff, you can switch into
demo-mode. Then all pupils see what the teacher is doing/demonstrating.
It's also possible to let a pupil demonstrate something by redirecting his
screen to all screens of the other pupils.
iTALC provides even more features for controlling the pupils computers.
For example you can lock all screens, so that the pupils can't continue their
work and are forced to turn their attention to the teacher. You can also kill
games or internet-browsers, if these things are not part of the lesson.

But there are also some nice features for administrators, making the
administration of the computers much easier and more comfortable. For example
you can execute one or more commands on every computer without sitting in front
of every computer and typing these comands. The execution of X-applications
(e.g. Star/OpenOffice-Setup) on all clients with redirection to the local
admin-computer is also part of iTALC's featurelist. Furthermore you can
shutdown and restart the computers per remote control. If the computers support
Wake-on-LAN, it's also possible to turn on all computers from a central place.

Author:
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Tobias Doerfel

KTechLab is an Open Source Intergated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation.

Featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of many common electronic components and logic elements, KTechLab is the idea tool for educational or hobbyist use.

KTechLab features an easy to use, flowchart based PIC program designer - Flowcoder; along with a BASIC like programming language called Microbe. Programs designed by these tools can be added to any circuit design as a 'virtual' PIC allowing complex microcontroller based circuits to be created.

KTechLab supports a wide range of Open Source PIC programmers, enabling finalised PIC programs to be quickly and easily transfered to a real PIC microcontroller.

Software to work with the lego mindstorms RCX brick.

Lejos nxj is a software package to program the mindstorms NXT brick.

The Vernier Software GmbH provides quite some computer interfaces to make measurements for science at school. This library provides a c++ interface to make use of this computer interfaces and the available sensors in a user program.

Java program to work with data from experiments.
This program is targeted for education.

RXTX is a Java library, using a native implementation (via JNI), providing serial and parallel communication for the Java Development Toolkit (JDK). It is based on the specification for Sun's Java Communications API.

The development of ghmessen takes place here (and some additional packages for use at my school), mainly cranix packages.

In essence, Beans Binding (JSR 295) is about keeping two properties
(typically of two objects) in sync. An additional emphasis is placed on
the ability to bind to Swing components, and easy integration with IDEs
such as NetBeans. This project provides the reference implementation.

RxTx is a Java library, using a native implementation (via JNI), providing serial
and parallel communication for the Java Development Toolkit (JDK). It is based on
the specification for Sun's Java Communications API.