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 suppport).  The
       interface and the whole content is througfully  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:      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.

SCALA SUPPORT

       The  current  Debian  version  (2.9) of scala is too ancient for the PLM, that requires at
       least 2.10. The support for the Scala language was thus removed from the  Debian  package.
       Sorry  for the inconvenience.  Please help us packaging the latest release of Scala if you
       can.

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/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.