Develop your children intellect with Gcompris
high quality educational software on GNU / Linux, Windows and Mac
OS X
Gcompris is a great piece of software to educate children in
the age interval of 2 to 10 years old.
Gcompris is a tool of educative and funny interactive
computer applications many of which has a form of games.
Gcompris is teaching the children on the following fields of
knowledge:
- understand the computer - keyboard, mouse etc.
- Algebra - Summing up numbers, enumarations, table memory,
mirror image etc.
- Science - The Canal lock, the water cycle, how a submarine
works, elementary electric simulation
- Geography - Find out about country locations, Place the country
on the map
- Games - Learn how to play chess, improve memory and
memorization, sudoku etc.
- Reading - Learning to read fluent, reading practice
- Learn to proerply tell time, solve puzzle games and learn
famous paintings, basic cartoon making, vector drawing
All the funny activities
Gcompris educative kid tool offers
100+.
Gcompris is in active development so with time more
and more activities gets added.
Gcompris is a Free Software and among with its native
GNU
/ Linux support it has ports for
Windows and
Mac OS
X
The Free Software nature of Gcompris gives possibility to be easily
adapted and further developed! Its really funny not only for kids,
but even for adults. If you had a stressy day and you want to relax
in a childish way and feel like a kid again, give it a try and you
will be amazed how much light and happiness this computer program
can bless you with ;)
Many of Gcompris activities has a little cute penguins and in
general its capable of introducing the kids to the nice concept of
the free software.
As a free software Gcompris is really great as among the rest of
the so popular free software freedoms: to distribute and modify the
software it comes absolutely free of charge (in money terms). This
is great news for parents who are growing their kids in the
"developing world", the so called 2nd and 3rd world as well is a
good alternative to the many available paid costly application
and games aiming at kids brain development.
The name
Gcompris is also known in free software realm under
the name
I GOT IT .
Gcompris has currently Sound and
text support for 33 Country Languages, here is a completele list of
languages currently supported:
Arabic, Asturian, Bulgarian, Breton, Czech, Danish, German,
Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French,
Hebrew, Indian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Indian, Norwegian,
Dutch, Norwegian, Punjabi, Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Somali,
Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Chinese
Some of the languages supported still does not have a 100%
translation but partially translated as its a question of time that
enough translators are found to make the translations for all
available major languages. The only 100% completed trasnlation as
of time of writting is in
French, Slovenian and
Spanish
Gcompris is already included in almost all available moderm
GNU / Linux distributions. A packaged version of it is part of
Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
For all those parents who wish to educate their children on Fedora
Linux install it with the GUI installer or yum with cmd:
[root@fedora ~]# yum install gcompris
...
On Debian and Ubuntu
Gcompris is installable via apt from
repos:
debian:~# apt-get install gcompris
...
To add a text and sound translation to Gcompris its also necessery
to install the relevant
gcompris-sound distribution package,
for example to add the sound translations for my native Bulgarian
language I had to install the package
gcompris-sound-bg,
e.g.:
debian:~# apt-get install gcompris-sound-bg
...
Gcompris is developed to use the Gnome's GTK and is a
perfect match for Linux users who already run a Gnome Desktop on
their PCs.
Most of
Gcompris versions should run without much hassle on
Mac OS X and Windows so all mommies and daddies on Windows or Mac
can install it and use it to educate their kids ;)
Here are few more screenshots of
Gcompris
To sum it up, if you want to make your children smarter or you're
bored to death and you need to have some rest by going back to your
childhood years try gcompris