Alice allows students to create simple 3D movies and games via a drag-and-drop visual interface.  Alice 2.2 is a fully-functional software product ready for student use.  Alice 3.0 is still in development, but when finished will allow an Alice world to be exported as a Java project for NetBeans.

Blender is a free 3D modeling application that can create 3D scenes and animations.  If you are interested in 3D graphics, you should try this out.  Blender is a complex application, but there are numerous tutorials available online.

The Visual Studio Express 2008 software can be downloaded for free from Microsoft and includes versions for Visual Basic, C#, C++, Web Programming, and SQL Server.

Eclipse is an open source development environment for Java.  Though the interface is rather advanced, the Eclipse IDE features code completion and syntax checking...something not available in other free Java editors.

Game Maker allows people with little prior experience to develop computer games for the PC using a drag and drop interface.  Game Maker also includes a versatile scripting language for more advanced users.

Alice allows students to create simple 3D movies and games via a drag-and-drop visual interface.  Alice 2.2 is a fully-functional software product ready for student use.  Alice 3.0 is still in development, but when finished will allow an Alice world to be exported as a Java project for NetBeans.

Blender is a free 3D modeling application that can create 3D scenes and animations.  If you are interested in 3D graphics, you should try this out.  Blender is a complex application, but there are numerous tutorials available online.

The Visual Studio Express 2008 software can be downloaded for free from Microsoft and includes versions for Visual Basic, C#, C++, Web Programming, and SQL Server.

Eclipse is an open source development environment for Java.  Though the interface is rather advanced, the Eclipse IDE features code completion and syntax checking...something not available in other free Java editors.

Game Maker allows people with little prior experience to develop computer games for the PC using a drag and drop interface.  Game Maker also includes a versatile scripting language for more advanced users.

This software allows you to pin any windows application so that it is always on top of other windows. 

This software allows you to pin any windows application so that it is always on top of other windows.