Projects/Edu/ProjectSuggestions

This is a list of projects to make KDE rock even more, as suggested by Ralf Gessellensetter on kde-devel, here.

Most of the suggestions are for new KDE-Edu projects. Although, some of them might not quite fit under (what I believe to be) KDE-Edu's scope.

Mathematics

Virtual graphical calculator -- Simulate a graphic pocket calculator as it is used within existing learning outilines. Many school books (grade 11+) refer to particular devices whose user interface resemble Derive. (cf. Schulzentrum Findorff)

* Univ. of Bayreuth provides a corresponding java applet: http://did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de/~wn/BLK/Rennen/grafcalc.html
* there is also a (dead) project "GraphCalc".

Dominoes -- Popular game which is interculturally known and trains calculation skills

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes

stochastiK -- Simulations and interactivities to evoke interest in stochastics (grade 6-10; coin, cumulated freq.)

dynamic work sheets -- Different types of tasks to be combined as modules - to be either solved on the computer (like kpercentage) or to be printed as work sheet with definable heading - and solutions on demand. Maybe this needs a LaTeX binding.

Intuitive GUI for maxima algebra system

Science

"KLab" -- During "Linuxtage Essen" (Essen Linuxdays), some scientists addressed the lack of free interfaces to scientific gear such as thermometers, gyrometers, geigercounters, whatsoever.

As a matter of fact, there are already loads of measuring tools - but it lacks integration and usabilities if we want to use them in school. This made me think: How about a framing project / application similar to ksensors? Existing implementations could dock into such framework. The framework itself could provide features like

* data recording
* data plotting
* statistical evaluations.

Also popping into my mind is ksimus datarecorder as possible frontend. As it comes to realtime data, acoustic recorders could be another approach.

* http://www.qt4lab.org/screenshots.htm looks promising...

Computer Sciences

KDE/Qt-Shell for swi-prolog, to render and query knowledge bases in a modern way. This might be solved by kdialog ("joining a katepart and a konsolepart with a QSplitter" - TSDgeos).
Komputer -- Journey into the heart of a PC (Explore CPU, RAM, Busses...)
Kartoffelkaefer -- Javakara for C++/Qt/KDE

Politics

eleKtions -- Interactive representation of voting results (Bundestag,

Landtag, ...) to be updated from Wikipedia or other online resources.

equivalent to GrafStat (freeware for schools from German secretary

for political education)

Arts

KMorph -- An even better (Qt!) equivalent to gtkmorph / xmorph