Software Recommendations for Standard Grade Computing

Parents and pupils can take advantage of some excellent software. Spending time at home becoming proficient with any of these will be of benefit to a good general background understanding in the course.

• Graphics
  • Inkscape - powerful vector graphics
  • GIMP - photo editing
  • Krita - easy to use
• Multimedia
  • Amarok - music organiser and player
  • Rythmbox - music organiser and player
  • VLC - video/audio player - plays just about ANY format
  • Audacity - audio editor with multitrack ability
  • k3b - excellent CD/DVD burning software
• Office
  • OpenOffice 3 - combines power and ease-of-use.
• Programming
  • php-cli - PHP programming command line interpreter
  • Kate - text editor we use for programming
  • Gedit - alternate editor for programming
  • SCITE - another alternate editor for programming
• Learning / Research aids
  • Freemind - powerful and easy to use mind-mapping software
  • Tomboy - flexible note taking assistant
• Operating System
  • Fedora Core 10 - easy to install and use. Good for computing beginners and experts alike.
  • Ubuntu - easy to install, very popular operating system with lots of software.
  • KDEWin - KDE software for Windows users.

For a large list of downloadable software, try softpedia.com