Let's Write!

The software “Let’s Write!” came out from a recreational update of a university assignment. It is primarily an educational software for kids. It has won a national competition to participate in a training workshop called ITEDP short for "IT Entrepreneurship Development Program" organized by BASIS and SEDF in the November 2004 SOFTEXPO at Dhaka, Bangladesh.

This software is primarily the brainchild of S. M. Taibur Rahman and Shahzada M. Redwan, students of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Stamford University, Bangladesh.

Teaching kids how to handwrite alphabets is never an easy job for anybody. It needs a lot of attention to detail and patience. Without the proper guideline, kids grow up with a bad handwriting. On the other hand, giving them attention and manually teaching them how to handwrite letters and numbers in different language is also very stressful and tiresome work!

Let’s Write! will be able to educate children (adults alike) on how to handwrite individual letters in English, Bengali, and Arabic language. The demonstrations of how to handwrite different letters is illustrated through graphical animation.

Let’s Write! is currently in its DEMO stage. Although, the concept of the project has been finalized, Bengali consonants and numbers along with English small letters and Arabic numbers are yet to be added to the software.

As a long term plan, we desire to update our software by adding other languages in the coming years. Eventually the software might become a reference guide demonstrating different system of languages and the symbols used to represent those languages and how to handwrite them properly. The software then could also have vocal and pictorial identification of each symbol animated. There is also a plan to add interactive handwriting testing facilities and games.

The software is coded in C language. It was developed using Borland Turbo C/C++ 3.0 compiler. The animations are produced by the use of built-in library function “Graphics.h” from Borland. This library is also called BGI in short for Borland Graphics Interface.

At last, it would be injustice not to mention Mr. A. K. M. Azad who taught us programming language C with such a brilliance and dexterity that a project like "Let's Write!" was possible for only 2 of us to code. He was an ex-lecturer of Stamford University Bangladesh and Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). Now he is working on his doctorate degree at Monash University in Australia.

For further information, please contact at s.redwan@gmail.com.

Thank you.