Learn the world's capital with this educational, free program for Palm OS
(Palm III, etc.). It will test you in 216 countries in capitals, area and
population of the countries (you choose which, or all). The scores are kept
in a high score table. It was written March 2000 by
Thomas Gredig (tiger7g@yahoo.com).
More programs can be found on my
home page.
Features
* 216 countries
* learn capitals, population, areas
* high scores
download World.zip here - it's free.
Is it Free ?
Yes, this program is free and maybe freely distributed in its original form
(world.zip with 3 files total), if no profit
is made from it. If you'd like to
send me some reimbursment for the coding, or like to push the
development of this and like programs, send an email to
tiger7g@yahoo.com to
retrieve my current address and you can send me a check. I'm also
setting up an account on www.kagi.com
so you can support me with VISA and such methods.
How to use it ?
The program is straight forward. Just install world.prc on your Palm
Pilot. It will ask multiple choice questions. The units for area are
square kilometers (metric units). You can go to the menu and choose
Options to question you only on capitals for instance, or choose
capitals and population, but not area, whatever you like.
History
I first wrote this program when I was 12 in GWBasic and learnt all
capitals, areas, population and currencies in about 3 days. That was
a lot of playing. I rewrote it in Pascal and C later, but didn't like
it. Finally, I scripted it using Perl and JavaScript and put it on my
web-page. But the JavaScript didn't work on all machines - that's
quite annoying (Java was too slow). I rewrote it for Palm OS, and I
like it that way. Send me your high scores, comments, questions,
missing features, like levels, or other information to
tiger7g@yahoo.com. Thanks. By the way, I still know all capitals,
areas and populations, you can really suck that information up this
way. Have fun, I hope you'll be faster than I am one day.....
Future
I would like to include a browse option that will give you various information
about different countries. Compress the data and feature more data. But hey,
I've got to finish school, too, so it might not be that fast.
12 April 2000 by Thomas Gredig
This program may freely distributed as long as you include this file and
don't make any profits in any form in distributing this program. This
program is copyrighted and all rights belong to Thomas Gredig.
