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.   The interface and the whole content is
       througfully translated to English and French.

       The following lessons are included in this package:

       . Welcome:   Teaches the basics of programming to absolute beginners

       . Maze:      Presentes 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 recreative 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 EVOLUTIONS

       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/*.zip
              Save files for each lesson. This contains the text that you provided to  solve  the
              exercises. You can copy them over to another machine to continue your work.

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/JLM/issues?sort=created&state=open  to report bugs and other
       feedback.