Hindawi Programming System

Hindawi Programming System (hereafter refered to as HPS) is a GPL'd suite of open source programming languages. It allows non-English medium literates to learn and write computer programs. It is a scalable system which supports many programming paradigms.

Shaili Prathmik or Indic BASIC and Indic LOGO are for beginners who want to start with computer programming.

On the higher end it supports Shaili Guru or Indic C, Shaili Shraeni or Indic C++, Shaili Yantrik or Indic Assembly, Shaily Shabda or Indic Lex, Shaili Vyaakaran or Shaili Vyaaka or Indic yaac, and Shaili Kritrim, which is an Indic programming language targeting JVM.

Mechanism and algorithms

HPS uses Romenagri transliteration to first convert the high level source code into a compiler acceptable format and then uses an existing compiler to produce machine code.

History

• The original contributors to HPS were Abhishek Choudhary and Sweta Karwa, who also developed APCISR and Romenagri
• Initial public release - 15th August 2004
• Release of version 2 by the ex-education minister of Bihar, Dr. Ram Prakash Mahto - 15th August 2005
• Release of Linux port under Sarai fellowship - 16th August 2006

Screen shot

• Screen-shot of Hindawi Laghu IDE (Savaksh)
  Screen-shot of Hindawi Laghu IDE (Savaksh)

Awards and recognition

Computer Society of India's National Young IT Professional Award 2005 Sarai / CSDS FLOSS fellowship [1] Hindawi is recognised by TDIL, Government of India. Hindawi was shortlisted for Manthan Award 2007

External links and refernces

• Hindawi Project Website http://hindawi.in
• Hindawi Project on Sourceforge http://sf.net/projects/hindawi
• TDIL mention of Hindawi http://tdil.mit.gov.in/asp_files/products.asp?currentPage=16
• Linux MKagazine Review of Hindawi http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/76/Linux_World_News.pdf
• An independent review of Linux port of Hindawi [2]
• An article on the need for Indic programming language refers to Hindawi [3]
• Hindawi Linux (port) home page with training videos [4]