Open source tools for children!!!

Yesterday, I searched for open source tools for my 9 year old brother.. The results were amazing.

Tux Paint is a wonderful program for painting. In particular I liked the magic and stamp section. The happiness on my bro’s face after seeing this tool was priceless 🙂 The features like sparkle, drip, shades, rainbow, grass, stamps etc are very good.

Pingus is a game involving penguins (well, u can term it as a strategic game ). The best part is its UI and the ease with with which u can create a level.. I designed a level for my bro and he enjoyed it very much. The game stimulates children to think about the necessary actions to be taken to reach the goal..

So.. If u have small kids at home, try exposing them to these tools and i bet they wil enjoy!!!

Signing off,

-Netra

Nested Comments

One of the questions posed in 8th mile OSP prelims was :

Write a program to check if the compiler (C compiler ) allows nested comments.

Here is the solution I came up with 🙂

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{

int i=10,*j,k,l=20;

j=&l;

k= /* /* */i */*j;/* */ 1;

if(k==i)

printf(“does not allow nested comments\n”);

else if(k==l)

printf(“allows nested comments”);

return 0;

}

I hope it works.. Comments and suggestions are most welcome. Please tell me if u have a better solution.