Software

Pedagogy

My review of an introductory textbook on computer programming.

Applets

Angle Calculator, with source code.
Try your astronaut skill with the Lunar lander, with source code.
Play tic tac toe, with source code.
Taking the freeways to work? Try the traffic simulation, with source code.
Mancala, an African board game.
Homeostatic Chess Player, an applet implementation of machine chess.

Windows Shareware and Freeware

All software linked here has been virus scanned, but scan it yourself before running to be doubly sure.

The software applications below require the dynamic link library (DLL) runtime, accessible here as vbrun.zip. Unzip the VBRUN300.DLL file and put it in your Windows system directory, if it's not there already.

Going metric? Use the shareware program Easy Convert.
Lawyer-Joke-a-Day (caution: politically incorrect shareware).
Explore summation rule 2D cellular automata with Life Workshop, which, based on John Conway's Game of Life, lets you change rules on the fly and experiment with an extension to the hexagrid which illustrates the emergence of complexity in a simpler environment. Shareware.
Crunch a big one with Big Number Cruncher. Freeware.
Play the world's first 3D crossword puzzle. Freeware.