Software

General Software

Here’s some general purpose software that you might already have installed on your PC at home already.

Microsoft Office
Word, Excel, Publisher, etc.
https://portal.office.com
Click Install Office > Office 365 Apps in the top right corner of the page
Microsoft Teamshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/download-app
Zoomhttps://zoom.us/client/latest/ZoomInstaller.exe
Java

NB Install both 32 and 64 bit options
https://www.java.com/en/download/

Computer Lab Software

Below is a list of all software installed in the computer labs and on the class sets of laptops. Some of the applications will give you the option to install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of software – you only need to install the 64-bit version.

7 Zip
Version 19
https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
Adobe Reader
Any Version
https://get.adobe.com/reader/
Audacity
Version 2.4.2
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
GIMP
Version 2.10.20
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Inkscape
Version 1.0
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/
Kodu
Versiopn 1.5.53.0
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10056
MIT App Inventor
Version 2.3.0
https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/windows.html
MovieMakerContact
MuseScore
Version 3.4.2
https://musescore.org/en/download
Notepad++
Version 7.8.8
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v7.8.8/
OpenShot
Version 2.5.1
https://www.openshot.org/download/
PhET Interactive Simulations
Latest Version
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/offline-access
Python
Version 3.8.3
https://www.python.org/downloads/
RapidTyping
Version 5.3
https://rapidtyping.com/downloads.html
RStudio
Version 1.3.959
https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
Scratch
Version 3.11.1
https://scratch.mit.edu/download
Stencyl
Version 4.0.2
http://www.stencyl.com/download/
VLC
Version 3.0.11
https://www.videolan.org/index.html

Students of DCG

You can get a free Student version of SolidWorks to install on your computer at home, known as the Student Design Kit (or SDK). This has all the features of the version installed in the labs and comes with a one year license (you can always re-activate this again next year so long as you remain a student of the College).

Please contact your DCG teacher for details on how to download and install it. Please note this is an extremely large download and it is not recommended to download this over a 3G/4G connection – these tend to have extremely low monthly usage allowances with punitive out of allowance charges.