NAME

       PLM - Cross-platform Programming Exerciser

SYNOPSIS

       plm

DESCRIPTION

       The Programmer's Learning Machine (PLM) is a free cross-platform programming exerciser. It
       lets you explore various concepts of programming through interactive exercises,  that  you
       can  solve  in  either  Java,  python  or  scala  (see  below for the Scala support).  The
       interface and the whole content is thoughtfully translated  to  English  and  French,  and
       mostly translated to Brazilian and Italian.

       The following lessons are included in this package:

       . Welcome:   Teaches the basics of programming to absolute beginners

       . Maze:      Presents some classical maze escaping algorithms for intermediate

       . Sort:      Focuses   on   the   classical   sorting  algorithms  for  intermediate.  One
                    introduction lesson presents the basics of the sorting algorithms  while  two
                    additional lessons apply them in more recreating settings.

       . Recursion: Dives into classical logo algorithms for intermediate

       . Turtle Art:
                    Presents  a  few  classical  LOGO  figures;  your  imagination will certainly
                    explore this world further.

       . LightBot:  Constitutes a little programmer's brain teaser for intermediate and advanced

       This program is released under the GNU  General  Public  License,  while  the  content  is
       released  under  the CC-BY-SA version. It requires Java version 1.6 or higher, either from
       OpenJDK or from another vendor.

CONFIGURATION

       PLM does not accept any command-line switch or  options;  every  elements  are  configured
       either through the user-defined property file, or within the graphical interface directly.

FUTURE EVOLUTION

       Other  lessons  are  planned  to  explore  new concepts, such as the backtracking, dynamic
       programming, object-oriented programming or the standard libraries  of  python  and  Java.
       Other  programming  languages  (such as ruby or JavaScript) may be added in the future. We
       hope that the translation of the interface and content to other human  languages  will  be
       contributed by the community in the future.

FILES

       ~/.plm/plm.properties
              User-configured properties.

       ~/.plm/plm.users
              List of PLM users defined on this machine.

       ~/.plm/<UUID>/
              Save  files  for  each  user. This contains the text that you provided to solve the
              exercises. You can copy them over to another machine to continue your work, but you
              probably  don't  want  to  manually  mess up with these files. If both machines are
              connected to the Internet, it is much easier to recreate a user with the same  UUID
              on the second machine, and let the PLM synchronize the files for you.

LICENSE

       The  PLM  program  is  distributed  under the GNU GPL version 3 or later (GPLv3+) license,
       available from http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

       The content is distributed under the CC-BY-SA license.

       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO  WARRANTY,
       to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       java(1)

BUGS

       See https://github.com/oster/PLM/issues to report bugs and other feedback.