Programming Languages

Programming for Kids

• Scratch - Programming for Kids from MIT - easy to create interactive stories and games (Windows, MacOSX) http://scratch.mit.edu/ (Creative Commons License)
• ucblogo - Berkley Logo - graphics language for kids (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html (free)
• LittleWizard - development environment for children to learn programming (Windows, Linux) http://littlewizard.sourceforge.net (GPL)
• DrPython - highly configurable, simple with editing enviornment, designed for schools (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://drpython.sourceforge.net (GPL)
• Squeak - multimedia environment for kids - Object oriented programming environment based on smalltalk (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.squeak.org (GPL)
• Kturtle - learn to program by moving a turtle - Logo programming for KDE (Linux) http://edu.kde.org/kturtle (GPL)
• Try Ruby! in your browser http://tryiruby.hobix.com (Free)



Basic Programming

• Basic-256 - easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming (Windows, Linux) http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
• FreeBasic - compatible with MS-Quick Basic (Windows, Linux) http://www.freebasic.net/ (GPL)
• wxBasic - Basic with openGL support (Windows, Linux) http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/ (LGPL)
• Visual Basic 2005 - Microsoft Express Edition (Windows) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa718406.aspx (Free)
• VisualBasic.NET - support in Mono (Windows, Linux) http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support (GPL)



Programming Languages

• Java - runtime environment from Sun (platform independent) http://java.sun.com/j2se/desktopjava/jre/
• PHP - web script language and part of web tools such as WAMP, XAMPP, MAMP and LAMP (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.php.net/ (GPL)
• Python - object oriented programming/scripting language comes with IDLE (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.python.org/ (GPL)
• PyGame - Python modules for writing games (platform indepenedent) http://www.pygame.org/ (GPL)
• Ruby - Instant Rails combines Apache, MySQL, ruby and rails (platform independent) http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl a windows version of Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org/ (GPL)
• Awk - GNU AWK data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ (GPL)
• CLIPS - A Tool for Building Expert Systems (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.ghg.net/clips/CLIPS.html (CLIPS License Free Public Domain)
• Clisp - Common Lisp Interpreter (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://clisp.cons.org/ (GPL)
• Cobol - still used by industry (Windows) http://www.opencobol.org/ (GPL)
• Forth - GNU implementation of Forth (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ (GPL)
• Fortran - GNU implementation of Fortran (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries (GPL)
• FreePascal - Pascal compiler (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.freepascal.org/ (GPL)
• Mono - C# compiler to run .NET software (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.mono-project.com (Free)
• PERL - programming language (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.perl.org/ (GPL)
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - or why write scripts when someone else already has (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://search.cpan.org/ (GPL)
• Prolog - GNU free Prolog compiler with constraint solving over finite domains (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.gprolog.org/ (GPL)
• Plt - Dr Scheme lisp style language (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/drscheme/ (GPL)
• Whitespace - Programming using spaces, tabs and newlines hence the name (MacOSX, Linux) http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ (Free)
• BloodshedSoftware provides a list of free compilers http://www.bloodshed.net/



Flash Programming

• Aswing - Actionscript GUI framework and library to make flash application UI easily (Windows) http://www.aswing.org/ (GPL)
• Kagswf - Easy to use tool for building SWF applications based on Actionscript language (Windows, wine on Linux) http://kagswf.tensus.net/ (GPL)
• Mtasc - Motion-twin Actionscript 2 compiler to generate flash SWF bytecode (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.mtasc.org/ (GPL)
• haXe - High-level object-oriented programming language to develop Websites - haXe can generate javascript, flash and neko VM bytecode (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://haxe.org/ (GPL)
• Neko - compiler and virtual machine - neko is a high-level dynamically typed programming language (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://nekovm.org/ (LGPL)



Programming Manuals and Tutorials

• css.tar.bz2 - Cascading Style Sheets Manual http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanta/ (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License)
• html.tar.bz2 - HTML 4.0 Reference Manual http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanta/ (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License)
• javascript.tar.bz2 - Client-Side JavaScript Reference v1.3 Manual http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanta/ (Netscape Communications Corporation)
• php_manual_en.chm - PHP manual windows version http://www.php.net (GPL)
• CSS Tutorials http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
• Python Beginners Guide http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
• Python in Education http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/

Editors

• npp - notepad++ with lots of extensions (Windows) http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm (GPL)
• SciTe - text and program editor with automatic syntax styling supports ADA, Assembler, C, C++, C#, CSS, Fortran, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lisp, Matlab, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell, SQL, TCL, VB, XML, YAML (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.scintilla.org/ (GPL)
• winvi - Windows version of "vi" Unix editor (Windows) http://www.winvi.de/en (GPL)
• pfe - simple powerful editor (Windows) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/default.htm (Free)
• ConTEXT - small text editor, developed for programmers with language specific highlighting (Windows) http://www.context.cx (GPL)
• cssed - CSS editor supports HTML, XML, Java, Javascript, JSP, PHP, C, C++, Python, Perl, SQL, Shell - multi-purpose text editor written in Java (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://cssed.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
• jedit - programmers text editor written in Java (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.jedit.org/ (GPL)
• TacoHTMLEdit - Taco HTML and php editor (MacOSX) http://tacosw.com (Free)

Software Development

UML/CASE tools

• ArgoUML - UML design tool with cognitive support runs on Java (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://argouml.tigris.org (BSD License)
• Bouml - Free UML 2 tool box (under development) extensible, external tools named plug-outs can be written in C++ or Java (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://bouml.free.fr/ (GPL)
• StarUML - UML/MDA platform which is fast, flexible, extensible, featureful and free (Windows) http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/ (GPL)
• Umbrello - UML modeller requires KDE (Linux) http://uml.sf.net (GPL)



Integrated Development Environments

• Aptana - Web IDE for building dynamic web applications, code assists on JavaScript, HTML and CSS languages (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.aptana.com/ (Eclipse Public License)
• Boa Constructor - cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI builder (platform independent) http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
• Codeblocks - C++ IDE extended with plugins (Windows, Linux) http://www.codeblocks.org (GPL)
• devPHP - PHP editor and IDE (Windows, Linux) http://devphp.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
• Eclipse - IDE Software Development Kit, java development, plugin development, team work and version control (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.eclipse.org/platform (Eclipse Public License)
• Eric - Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python (platform independent) http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html (GPL)
• Judo - Java IDE for Children and Beginning Programmers (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://judo.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
• JUnit - automated testing tool for software developers plug-in module for both NetBeans and Eclipse (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.junit.org (Common Public License)
• Lazarus - visual programming environment for FreePascal compiler (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/ (LGPL)
• NetBeans - IDE Software Development requires Java SE JDK (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.netbeans.org (Sun Public License)
• SharpDevelop - Free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform, requires .NET Framework 2.0 SDK (Windows) http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ (Free)
• wxPython - blending wxWidgets C++ class with Pyhton (platform independent) http://wxpython.org/ (GPL)
• Kdevelop - easy to use KDE IDE supporting many programming languages such as C++, Java, Fortran and Haskell (Linux) http://www.kdevelop.org (GPL)
• GUI programming in Python http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming



Version Control Systems

• CVS - Concurrent Version System (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki (GPL)
• Subversion - Version control system replacement for CVS (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://subversion.tigris.org/ (Apache/BSD License)
• TortoiseCVS - extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer for CVS (Windows) http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ (GPL)
• TortoiseSVN - extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer for Subversion (Windows) http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ (GPL)
• CVSweb - WWW interface for CVS respositories (Linux) http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html (BSD License)
• ViewVC - Web-based Version Control Repository Browsing interface for CVS and Subversion (Linux) http://viewvc.tigris.org/ (BSD License)
• git - version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency (Linux) http://git.or.cz/ (GPL)
• Qgit - graphical interface to git respositories (Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgit/ (GPL)



Software Development Tools

• nsis - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for programmers to create installers for Windows (Windows) http://nsis.sf.net (Free - zlib/libpng license, bzip2 license & Common Public License)
• DBDesigner - database design, modelling, creation and maintance (Windows, Linux) http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/index.php (GPL)
• Pyro - PYthon RObotics provides programming environmnet for artificial intelligence (Linux) http://pyrorobotics.org/ (Open Source)

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