README

What is this app for ?

Aakash Programming Lab(APL) is a simplified learning tool for C, Cpp, Python and Scilab programming languages. It has a text editor to write code and terminal window to view output. It has options to save code to sdcard or load existing code from sdcard. Scilab can handle plots too. Each programming language has detailed inbuilt help(see our docs repository), starting from step by step instruction to use application and detailed programming language reference. You may want to download the docs repository to find more on developer manual. A simple one page handout is here .

You may want to check out our youtube video.

NB: This application is tested only on Aakash tablets, others may use it at their own risk after suitable changes.

Installation

Simple and recommended installation procedure

1. This process requires a working internet connection. If you're behind proxy, then set no proxy for 127.0.0.1 in your WiFi proxy settings. This is not required for normal direct internet connections
2. Download the latest APL.apk from here and install it on your Aakash
3. Click on green color icon(labeled APL) in android menu and allow it to download the ~180MB image file
4. The download and uncompress process will take some while, you need to reboot the device to complete installation

Alternate way of installation

1. Download the latest version of apl image in tar or zip format. apl.tar.gz or apl.img.zip The untar or unzip process of above file will produce apl.img of around 700MB or less on your computer. Copy apl.img to root of your sdcard(internal or external).
2. Then install APL.apk in your Aakash, shutdown and start your Aakash to finish installation.
3. Now locate APL (green) icon in your android menu, select it to choose your programming language preference.

You can optionally check help inside option menu of each programming environment for detailed user manual and language reference.

Yet another alternate Installation process of APL

1. Download the tar or zip of this repository.
2. Download the latest version of apl.tar.gz or apl.img.zip and keep it in the same installer-ics directory in your Linux machine.
3. Now cd to installer-ics directory and execute

sudo bash install.sh

The device will reboot on success. That's all, don't repeat any step from previous method.

Uninstallation of APL for both above methods

Locate Aakash Programming Lab(APL) in settings -> Apps and uninstall.

Restart the device and then remove the apl.img from your sdcard.

Caution

Ensure around 700MB space in your sdcard for proper installation.

Do not remove apl.img while app is in use.

Follow the uninstall procedure strictly.

Please note that, this app is tested only on Aakash tablet, you may download it and use it for any other device, if it run successfully on your platform please let us know. There is a branch for froyo too.

LICENSE

GNU GPLv3