World Geography
Educational Program for Palm OS 3.0
Learn the world's capitals with this educational, free program for Palm OS
(Palm III, etc.). It will test you in 223 countries, and territories 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 (www.polliglot.com).
| Features
* 223 countries, territories
* learn capitals, population, areas (you choose which one or all)
* choose a continent, or the entire world
* high scores
download World.zip here - it's
free.
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How to play
The multiple-choice questions are about the capital, area, and population
of a country. The area is in units of square kilometers. The data is from
1996 to 1999, the list of countries and territories is checked and referenced
from World Almanacs (such as the New York Times Almanac)
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. You can also choose
a continent, such as Europe from the pop-down menu (upper left).
History
I first wrote this program when I was 1986 in GWBasic and learnt all
capitals, areas, population and currencies in about a week. 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
webpage. 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. If you are using the program, please send me your
comments and feed-back. It is greatly
appreciated.