[seul-edu] New educational apps--various

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Administrative

http://people.westminstercollege.edu/students/d-b1649/programming/php/bessie.html

Bessie the Annihilator (commonly refered to as just "Bessie") is a
web-based grading program. It allows teachers to enter assignments
and grades for various courses into a database, which students may
then log-in and view.

Bessie was designed and written between the months of September and
December of 2001 by myself and a group of three other students (Ryan
Lewis, Rachel Carlson, and Tom Delgado) at Westminster College. It
was never originally intended to be a finished product; rather,
Bessie was meant to be an exercise in designing software. I do
intend on making improvements, though, especially if someone
expresses an interest in using it.

Language

http://www.directfb.org/

DFBKana is a small DirectFB program to help you learn Japanese kana
(hiragana and katakana). You will be presented a kana character and
you have to guess the pronounciation by selecting the apropriate
romanji field in the romanji grid window. The program uses alpha
blending to visualize which characters you know well and which you
don't.

Presentation

http://www.directfb.org/dfbpoint.xml

DFBPoint is a presentation program that started as a quick hack on
the way to Guadec where we used it for the DirectFB talk. It reads
an XML file with simple slide descriptions and displays the slides.
DFBPoint-0.5.tar.gz is the latest version and includes features like
antialiased text, background images, images and video playback. The
slides can be faded and/or slid in.

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