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<H1>2. <A NAME="s2"></A>Contributed Packages</H1>
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<P>Small (in size) contributions are included in the release. Among them we can cite:
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<LI><EM>STk-wtour</EM>: A didactic demo to learn <B>STk</B> written by Suresh Srinivas
<A HREF="mailto:ssriniva@cs.indiana.edu">(ssriniva@cs.indiana.edu)</A>
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<LI><EM>Stetris : </EM>A tetris game written by Harvey J. Stein
<A HREF="mailto:hjstein@math.huji.ac.il">(hjstein@math.huji.ac.il)</A>
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<LI><EM>Queens</EM>: The famous 8 queens problem by Grant Edwards
<A HREF="mailto:grante@winternet.com">(grante@winternet.com)</A>
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<LI><EM>Ttt</EM>: A 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe by Edin "Dino" Hodzic
<A HREF="mailto:ehodzic@scu.edu">ehodzic@scu.edu</A>
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<P>Complex contributions are kept in the
<A HREF="ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub/Contrib">ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub/Contrib</A>
directory. This directory contains also old code which should probably be updated to work with current STk release. Among the packages which can be found in this directory are:
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<LI><EM>EnvDraw</EM>: is a environment diagramming package which draws environment diagrams as taught in Abelson and Sussman's <EM>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Languages</EM>. It was written as an instructional tool for the CS61A course at the University of California at Berkeley. The environment diagrammer is a metacircular evaluator which draws procedures, environments, and box and pointer diagrams along with all the accompanying symbols and mutation. It includes a box and pointer diagrammer which handles circular list structures, cons cell mutation, and also will watch for modification of any symbols known to be pointing to drawn cells. The author of this very neat package is Josh MacDonald
<A HREF="mailto:jmacd@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU">jmacd@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU</A>
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<LI><EM>WWW </EM>is a HTML browser which greatly enhances the hbrowse demo which is part of STk distribution. You should look at this package. Author: Harvey J. Stein
<A HREF="mailto:hjstein@math.huji.ac.il">hjstein@math.huji.ac.il</A>
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<LI><EM>Nanocad</EM> is chemistery CAD program which allows you to create small molecules and to rotate them. The author of this package is Will Ware
<A HREF="mailto:wware@world.std.com">wware@world.std.com</A>
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<P>Some packages are not in the <CODE>kaolin</CODE> <CODE>Contrib</CODE> directory:
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<LI>A preemptive thread package can be found at
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.cs.uoregon.edu/pub/lth/tasking-alpha2.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.cs.uoregon.edu/pub/lth/tasking-alpha2.tar.gz</A>
The uthor of this package is Lars Thomas Hansen
<A HREF="lth@cs.uoregon.edu">lth@cs.uoregon.edu</A>
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<LI>A low level interface to the Postgres 95 Database can be found at http://www.webbuild.com/~rtoy/pgstk/http://www.webbuild.com/~rtoy/pgstk/ .</LI>
<LI><EM>Tabula rasa </EM>is a system written by David Fox which use the STk interpreter (but not Tk).This package can be found at ?????. (TO BE COMPLETED)</LI>
<LI>spice package from Fritz.Heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de (I cannot find the reference)</LI>
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