Mathematics
GeoGebra is interactive software for geometry, algebra, statistics, and differential calculus designed for teaching these subjects in schools, from elementary to university level.
GeoGebra allows users to explore geometry: from the outset, users can manipulate various basic geometric objects in a plane, such as circles, lines, angles, etc.
It is mainly used by teachers for their classes, but anyone who wants to explore geometry visually and dynamically will benefit from it. It can be used to validate constructions based on properties.
Distributed as free software, anyone can use, study, and modify it as long as it is not used commercially.
Here is a link to the GeoGebra website. The site is also available in English, Spanish, and Russian. The language can be set on the website page.
Jupyter is a web application used for programming in more than 40 programming languages, including Python, Julia, Ruby, R, and Scala[2]. It is a community project whose goal is to develop free software, open formats, and services for interactive computing. Jupyter allows you to create notebooks, i.e., programs containing both text, simple or enriched typographically and semantically thanks to the simplified Markdown markup language, and code, source lines, and execution results. These notebooks are used in particular in data science to explore and analyze data.
This is the tool offered on this key for Python programming.
Logisim is a logic circuit simulator.
It is free and open source software [1]. It is written in Java with the Swing graphics library. It runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and OS X.
The SageMath project aims to "develop a viable open source alternative" to the Magma, Maple, and Mathematica computer algebra systems, as well as the MATLAB numerical computing software[2].
SageMath has advanced features in areas such as linear algebra, commutative algebra, number theory, and algebraic combinatorics.
An important architectural feature of SageMath, compared to most other computer algebra systems, is the way it builds on existing software. Rather than providing a specific command language, SageMath uses Python, a pre-existing general-purpose programming language. The mathematical features themselves also rely heavily on other software, which SageMath includes and unifies the interface for.
The SageMath system thus consists of a distribution of third-party software, a Python library for mathematical computation, part of whose functionality directly calls on the software in the distribution, and user interfaces that allow interactive use of this library.
A SageMath tutorial from the CNRS (in french)
https://mmorancey.perso.math.cnrs.fr/TutorielSage.html
Scilab is free, open-source, multi-platform numerical computation software that provides a computing environment for scientific applications.
It has a high-level numerical computing-oriented programming language. It can be used for matrix computation and all areas of scientific computing such as signal processing,statistical analysis, image processing, simulation,optimization, and modeling. It is also a tool for learning programming.
It is available for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.
The syntax and capabilities offered by Scilab are similar to those of Matlab, but the two languages are not compatible.
APESAM offers two user files:
- A startup file with explanations for first-time users.
- A file of examples of common mathematical algorithms (bachelor's degree level) with links to the associated Scilab files.
Xcas is a Giac interface that allows you to perform formal calculations, graphical representations in the plane or space, dynamic geometry (in the plane or in space), spreadsheets, statistics, and programming.
RStudio is a free, open-source, cross-platform development environment for R, a programming language used for data processing and statistical analysis.
R is a statistical analysis system. R is both software and an interpreted language.
R has many functions for statistical analysis, graphics, data processing, and storage. Graphs are displayed on screen or on paper and can be exported in various formats (jpg, png, bmp, ps, pdf, emf, pictex, xfig); the formats available may depend on the operating system. The results of statistical analyses are displayed on screen or can be saved or exported to a file for use in further analyses.
Zeal is an offline documentation tool.
It allows you to store a large amount of documentation on the USB drive that can be accessed offline.
It allows keyword searches across all documentation installed in its database, making it a powerful tool.
For several software documentation files on the USB drive, we were unable to integrate the versions translated by DeepL directly into the software. They are therefore grouped together on Zeal.
By launching Zeal, you will have access to documentation for: Arduino, Dozzaqueud, C, Jupyter, LaTeX, MatPlotLib, Numpy, Ocaml, Python 3, Rstudio, Sage, Scipy, and more.
Chemistry
This is software for simulating titration curves in aqueous solution: you choose the reagents to put in the beaker and those to put in the burette, and Dozzzaqueux determines the concentrations based on the volume poured and plots the curves you want.
Zeal is an offline documentation tool.
It allows you to store a large amount of documentation on a USB drive that can be accessed offline.
It allows keyword searches across all documentation installed in its database, making it a powerful tool.
For several software documentation files on the USB drive, we were unable to integrate the versions translated by DeepL directly into the software. They are therefore grouped together on Zeal.
By launching Zeal, you will have access to documentation for: Arduino, Dozzaqueud, C, Jupyter, LaTeX, MatPlotLib, Numpy, Ocaml, Python 3, Rstudio, Sage, Scipy, and more.
Engineering sciences
Scilab is free, open-source, multi-platform numerical computation software that provides a computing environment for scientific applications.
It has a high-level numerical computing-oriented programming language. It can be used for matrix computation and all areas of scientific computing such as signal processing,statistical analysis, image processing, simulation,optimization, and modeling. It is also a tool for learning programming.
It is available for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.
The syntax and capabilities offered by Scilab are similar to those of Matlab, but the two languages are not compatible.
APESAM offers two user files:
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- A startup file with explanations for first-time users.
- A file of examples of common mathematical algorithms (bachelor's degree level) with links to the associated Scilab files.
Xcos, developed by Scilab Enterprises, is a graphical mathematical modeling and hybrid dynamic system simulation tool distributed with Scilab.
A graphical editor, Xcos allows you to build models of hybrid dynamic systems. Models can be assembled, loaded, saved, compiled, and simulated.
A powerful and user-friendly solution particularly suited to industrial and academic needs, Xcos offers modeling capabilities for mechanical systems (automotive, aeronautics, etc.), hydraulic circuits (dams, etc.), and system control, etc.
Several external modules are available to add functionality to the Xcos tool in a variety of fields.
Zeal is an offline documentation tool.
It allows you to store a large amount of documentation on the key that is accessible offline.
It allows keyword searches across all documentation installed in its database, making it a powerful tool.
For several software documentation files on the USB stick, we were unable to integrate the versions translated by DeepL directly into the software. They are therefore grouped together on Zeal.
By launching Zeal, you will have access to documentation for: Arduino, Dozzaqueud, C, Jupyter, LaTeX, MatPlotLib, Numpy, Ocaml, Python 3, Rstudio, Sage, Scipy, and more.
Using an algorithmic language in French and a simple, user-friendly graphical interface, this software makes it easy to design and test algorithms that may be encountered in secondary school mathematics education.
The source code for the algorithms is built step by step using ready-to-use commands (read, display, assign, if...then statements, loops for...from...to and while...): this allows beginners to focus primarily on algorithmic logic rather than learning complex syntax. Once the algorithm has been developed, it can easily be executed to verify its validity.
In order to be able to approach various mathematical situations, Algobox includes an editor in the form of a hierarchical tree, where most commands are entered by pressing the buttons on the graphical interface corresponding to the basic algorithmic structures. However, raw code editing is also possible in a classic text editor (included with the program), without using the ready-to-use commands.
Jupyter is a web application used for programming in more than 40 programming languages, including Python, Julia, Ruby, R, and Scala[2]. It is a community project whose goal is to develop free software, open formats, and services for interactive computing. Jupyter allows you to create notebooks, i.e., programs containing both text, simple or enriched typographically and semantically thanks to the simplified Markdown markup language, and code, source lines, and execution results. These notebooks are used in particular in data science to explore and analyze data.
This is the tool offered on this key for Python programming.
OCaml, formerly known asObjective Caml, is the most advanced implementation of the Caml programming language, a language from the ML family of languages, and is an open source project led and maintained primarily by Inria.
Caml is a functional language enhanced with features that enable imperative programming. OCaml extends the language's capabilities by enabling object-oriented and modular programming.
It integrates these different concepts into a type system inherited from ML, characterized by static, strong, and inferred typing.
The type system allows for easy manipulation of complex data structures: algebraic types, i.e., hierarchical and potentially recursive types (lists, trees, etc.), can be easily represented and manipulated using pattern matching.
Strong typing, as well as the absence of explicit memory manipulation (presence of a garbage collector), make OCaml a very safe language.
It is a powerful language for teaching and is often used for learning programming.
The editor used on the key by clicking on the menu icon is EMACS
LibreOffice Calc is the spreadsheet software in the open source LibreOffice office suite. It offers an interface similar to that of Microsoft Excel, allowing you to easily create and edit spreadsheets using an interactive editor. s and perform operations automatically.
The software is organized in cells that form a double-entry table. LibreOffice Calc has a variety of features for managing columns, rows, backgrounds, borders, etc. You can create matrices, graphs, pivot tables, and even macros in the software.
With LibreOffice Calc, you can use formulas (equations that use numbers, text, and variables to obtain a result) to simplify and automate calculations.
Intuitive and with a simple toolbar interface, Logisim is used to design and simulate processors for educational purposes. This software allows you to design circuits and observe their simulation at each stage of construction. It also offers the possibility of building larger circuits from small sub-circuits.
Logisim is a tool written in Java.
Scratch is a graphical programming language for educational purposes, which can be manipulated and executed by the software of the same name.
Scratch allows the program code to be modified during execution. Scratch is multimedia-oriented with the aim of teaching children or beginners about the world of computing, and is based on the manipulation of objects. Scratch works using a visual editor, with all code written directly in the user's native language (more than 70 languages are available) in the form of colored blocks (e.g., controls in yellow, variables in orange, movements in blue). It allows basic programming concepts such as loops, conditions, tests, and variable assignments to be implemented visually.
The Scratch cat, named Scratch-Cat, is the site's mascot and the default sprite found in every project when it is created. It also has a distinctive meow that is included among the sounds of the default sprite in newly created projects.
Scilab is free, open-source, multi-platform numerical computation software that provides a computing environment for scientific applications.
It has a high-level numerical computing-oriented programming language. It can be used for matrix computation and all areas of scientific computing such as signal processing,statistical analysis, image processing, simulation,optimization, and modeling. It is also a tool for learning programming.
It is available for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.
The syntax and capabilities offered by Scilab are similar to those of Matlab, but the two languages are not compatible.
APESAM offers two user files:
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- A startup file with explanations for first-time users.
- A file of examples of common mathematical algorithms (bachelor's degree level) with links to the associated Scilab files.
The schematics for these electronic boards are published under a free license. However, certain components, such as the microcontroller, are not.
The microcontroller can be programmed to analyze and produce electrical signals in order to perform a wide variety of tasks such as home automation (control of domestic appliances—lighting, heating, etc .), robot control, embedded computing, etc.
It is a platform based on a simple input/output interface.
Zeal is an offline documentation tool.
It allows you to store a large amount of documentation accessible offline on a USB drive.
It allows keyword searches across all documentation installed in its database, making it a powerful tool.
For several software documentation files on the USB drive, we were unable to integrate the versions translated by DeepL directly into the software. They are therefore grouped together on Zeal.
By launching Zeal, you will have access to documentation for: Arduino, Dozzaqueud, C, Jupyter, LaTeX, MatPlotLib, Numpy, Ocaml, Python 3, Rstudio, Sage, Scipy, and more.
Physics
Software recognized in the scientific community: Regressi is a tool for acquiring, presenting, processing, and analyzing experimental data. It is the software of choice in the scientific community. It is also a benchmark in high schools, universities, and businesses.
Regressi is compatible with equipment such as spectrophotometers, oscilloscopes, electrodes, scales, etc. It is indispensable for scientific experiments in the laboratory. Although data is acquired via recorded images or videos, measuring devices can be connected directly to the computer.
AviMeca is a small, unique piece of software that can be extremely useful. Math and physics teachers are particularly fond of it.
Avidemux is video software that allows you to cut, perform simple editing, apply filters and subtitles, and re-encode videos.
The schematics for these circuit boards are published under a free license. However, certain components, such as the microcontroller, are not.
The microcontroller can be programmed to analyze and produce electrical signals in order to perform a wide variety of tasks such as home automation (controlling domestic appliances such as lighting and heating), robot control, embedded computing, etc.
It is a platform based on a simple input/output interface.
Zeal is an offline documentation tool.
It allows you to group together a large amount of documentation that can be accessed offline on a USB drive.
It allows keyword searches across all documentation installed in its database, making it a powerful tool.
For several software documentation files on the USB drive, we were unable to integrate the versions translated by DeepL directly into the software. They are therefore grouped together on Zeal.
By launching Zeal, you will have access to documentation for: Arduino, Dozzaqueud, C, Jupyter, LaTeX, MatPlotLib, Numpy, Ocaml, Python 3, Rstudio, Sage, Scipy, and more.
Editing
LibreOffice Writer is the free and open source word processing and desktop publishing (DTP) component of the LibreOffice software suite. LibreOffice Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word with many similar features and compatibility with Word file formats.
LibreOffice Calc is the spreadsheet software in the LibreOffice open source office suite. It offers an interface similar to that of Microsoft Excel, allowing you to easily create and edit spreadsheets using an interactive editor. s and perform operations automatically.
The software is organized into cells that form a double-entry table. LibreOffice Calc has a variety of features for managing columns, rows, backgrounds, borders, etc. You can create matrices, graphs, pivot tables, and even macros in the software.
With LibreOffice Calc, you can use formulas (equations that use numbers, text, and variables to obtain a result) to simplify and automate calculations.
Emacs: the developer's Swiss Army knife
Emacs, or Editor MACroS, created by Richard Stallman, is a very powerful, extensible, and customizable text editor. One of its special features is that it is fully programmable in its extension language, Emacs Lisp, and this is done on the fly, meaning that you never need to restart the editor to see the changes.
Although it may seem austere at first glance, with a little practice, Emacs can be used as a development environment for many languages (LaTeX with the auctex extension, Python, JavaScript, HTML, etc.), as a web browser, email client, IRC client, psychoanalyst, and more.
Auto Multiple Choice is a set of utilities for automatically creating, managing, and correcting multiple-choice questionnaires (MCQs).
Several applications for producing LATEX documents are available on the key:
Texmaker is free software for editing LaTeX documents and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
This editor offers a range of features: full Unicode support, syntax highlighting, spell checking, regular expression support
The document structure is constantly available via a dedicated panel and is automatically refreshed as you type. Panels also provide easy access to hundreds of mathematical symbols. This software also includes a PDF viewer directly integrated into the main window with continuous display mode, synctex support for PDF/source synchronization, the ability to display two pages side by side, and apply rotations to the document.
A wizard also allows you to export your document in HTML or MathML.
TeXworks is software licensed under the GNU General Public License for Windows, Linux, or macOS operating systems. It is a graphical interface for TeX and its extensions LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX. Jonathan Kew (XeTeX) developed TeXworks based explicitly on the approach Dick Koch took in developing TeXShop, a TeX interface for macOS. By default, TeXworks displays its text editor and an integrated PDF viewer side by side, so that the user can quickly see the final document while editing the LaTeX file. The integration of the editor and PDF reader allows you to switch to the corresponding location in the other document.
TeXworks requires a TeX installation such as TeX Live or MiKTeX, which is, of course, installed on the USB drive.
DeepL is an online machine translation and text improvement service in thirty-three languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US and UK), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Czech, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
It is not free software, but there is a free version (included on the key). We used DeepL to translate most of the documentation for the key
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