SanskritaPradipika, a freely downloadable e-tutor for the Sanskrit language, is intended to help English-speaking people learn Sanskrit, as well as the Devanagari script in which the language is written today. The tutor has been written in the Java programming language. In principle, this is supposed to ensure that the package will run without problems on any sort of computer that can be connected to the Internet. The fact is, though, that SanskritaPradipika has been created on ancient IBM-compatibles powered by Intel Pentium II chips, running WindowsXP. Much testing therefore needs to be done before the software can certifiably be said to be platform independent, and to run without error on other types of computer, such as an Apple, or a Sun Workstation. Seven chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered at this time. Other chapters will shortly be made available.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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