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Crocodile ICT is the perfect tool for computer science
and technology instructors who are teaching programming
and control systems. Your students can write their own
programs easily using the user-friendly flowcharts,
which can capture events - such as on-screen inputs
being clicked - and control outputs. Programming, monitoring
and debugging using the control tools is straightforward.
Your students' programs can control animated environments
and systems such as a car park, greenhouse, or smart
house. Crocodile ICT comes with a range of animated
systems to control, or you can create new ones using
your own images, animations and sounds.
Towards the end of 2004, Crocodile Clips released
the first version of Crocodile ICT. Called version 0,
it allowed simple on-screen programs to be written using
flowcharts, which controlled on-screen animated inputs
and outputs.
At
the start of January 2005, the first full version was
released: version 501. This includes two new animated
human characters - a girl and a boy. Each has a range
of actions which can be programmed using the flowcharts,
including dance steps and interactions. The humans offer
an accessible way to teach abstract programming concepts,
such as variables, loops, functions and conditional
statements.
Crocodile
ICT - especially the two humans - offers an engaging
challenge to all students - even those who don't think
they're interested in control.
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System Requirements:
Windows:
Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP; PII 450 MHz or higher;
64MB RAM; 16-bit soundcard optional; web browser
MAC:
Version OS 10.2 or later; G3 400 MHz or better; 128
MB RAM; 16-bit soundcard optional; web browser.
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