Acknowledgments

Testers

Thanks to the alpha testers: Lorinda, Liesel, Kate, Karl, and James.

Open Source Software

A host of open source software projects aided in the development of Madabar.

KWordQuiz

KWordQuiz is a flashcard editing/quiz program that inspired me to write Madabar. KWordQuiz is nice and simple, but I wanted something more flexible and extensible, and more amenable to the things I was trying to learn. (Note: None of the Madabar Vocab source code is derived from KWordQuiz.)

http://www.peterandlinda.com/kwordquiz

Python

Python is a cross-platform, high-level, interpreted programming language. It is my language of choice for most tasks due to its clarity, simplicity, scalability, large module library and overall good design.

http://www.python.org

PyQt

PyQt is a set of Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform toolkit.

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt

Qt

Qt is a well-designed cross platform toolkit, that provides the GUI libraries for Madabar. Unfortunately Qt 3 for Windows is not available under the GPL.

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt

The GIMP

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) was used to generate the icons and other graphics in Madabar.

http://www.gimp.org

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice Writer was used for writing the HTML help files.

http://www.openoffice.org

GNU Emacs

The code was written using the GNU Emacs text editor.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

KDE

The KDE desktop environment is fairly easy to use and looks nice.

http://www.kde.org

The Fedora Project

Fedora is a Linux distribution that is reasonably easy to use, quick to install and has timely bugfix and security updates, and fairly up-to-date packages.

http://fedora.redhat.com

Linux

Linux is an operating system that is free and doesn't lock you in. Well – it does lock you into GPL if you want to modify it, but then there's always BSD...

http://www.linux.org