Jconsole. Tail. Monit. Munin - Trac. SYSSTAT. Nagios: Home. A. Sundararajan's Weblog: Sizeof for Java. I've been experimenting/playing with programming tools for kids. I've two kids - 8 and 5 year old. Scratch Great multimedia rich introduction to programming for kids. My son keeps playing with it! If you are after ease-of-use, this is probably the best choice. Available for download on Mac and Windows. If you have Squeak installed, you can get Scratch running on Linux as well (possibly with some audio problems). Website: has has nice screen-cast tutorials that cover basics very well. Has nice tutorials and teaching resources that eventually leads kids to develop interesting games Examples/Repository: Register @ scratch.mit.edu to download lots of great samples!
EToys EToys is an tool to teach children a multimedia rich authoring environment and visual programming system. StarLogoTNG Alice This is an environment to teach programming in a 3D environment. Turtle Art Want to work with source code? Greenfoot.