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.