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GCompris

GCompris

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. It is intended to become some sort of unified interface to integrate more educational games.

It offers activities dedicated to small children such as learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, science, geography and much more.

It is designed in a way that makes it easy to add new boards.

 GCompris

License
GPL

Developer
Bruno Coudoin, Yves Combe, Yann Dirson, Pascal Georges, Jose JORGE, Olivier Samyn, Laurent Lacheny, Joe Neeman

Website
gcompris.net

Requirements
Processor : Pentium 2 166MHz
Memory (RAM) : 48 MB
Video : A 3D card is NOT required

GTK and the GNOME Libraries
libxml and gtk-pixbuf

Support:
Manual, WikiMailing List

Selected Reviews:
Download.com

GCompris has more than 100 activities related to:

  • Computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gestures
  • Algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror images
  • Science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulations
  • 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

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Last Updated Sunday, July 10 2011 @ 11:56 AM EDT



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