Debian Games education packages

You think of an animal, and this package tries to guess it... when it's wrong, you teach it about your animal.

To be more flexible and help educational aspect this game does not contain an initial database. This also allows it to be used for non animals like guessing of tools or locations.

Atomix is an educational game designed for GNOME in which one has to build molecules, ranging from simple inorganic ones to some extremely complex organic ones, out of separate atoms.

The first levels can be rather easy, but added complexity always comes with the next level, so that several minutes (or much longer than that) can be spent on each single level.

BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun exercises.

Gamine is a game designed for 2 years old children who are not able to use a keyboard.

The child uses the mouse to draw coloured dots and lines on the screen.

Granule is a flashcard program that implements Leitner cardfile methodology for learning new words. It features both short-term and long-term memory training capabilities with scheduling.

pySioGame is a set of educational activities and games for children aged between 3 and 10. The activities are grid based and can be played all in a single window. pySioGame includes maths, reading, writing, painting, and memory activities.

«Tux, de Comandante matemático» («TuxMath,» para abreviar) es un juego de arcade educativo protagonizado por Tux, ¡La mascota de Linux! Basado en el clásico juego de arcada «Missile Command,» Tux debe defender sus ciudades. En este caso, sin embargo, debe hacerlo resolviendo problemas matemáticos.

TuxTyping es un juego educativo de aprendizaje de mecanografía protagonizado por Tux, el pingüino de Linux. El jugador guía a Tux para que coma el pescado que está cayendo desde lo alto de la pantalla. Cada pescado tiene una letra escrita en él. Cuando el jugador pulsa la tecla correspondiente, Tux se colocará él solo para comerse el pez. El juego está destinado a niños que están aprendiendo a escribir, aunque tiene niveles de más dificultad que incluso los mecanógrafos experimentados pueden encontrar desafiantes.

A simple educational game that simulates bouncing balls in a window. Gravity, elasticity, and ability to collide can all be adjusted.

Young children enjoy watching the balls bounce around the screen and are fascinated by the program. This is an ideal program for teaching rudimentary mouse skills to very young children.