Welcome to the home of Guido van Robot!

Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages! It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the basic concepts of programming.

Are you interested in GvR, or do you have a bug report or question? Head on over to the 'Contact Us' page to find out how to send us an e-mail or how to get the latest version of the GvR source.

What's new in GvR?

2007-05-12
GvRng has now a 'one window' design
GvRng is now packed in one window so you have everything available.
No longer loosing your editor windows or the language reference, everything in one place.

2007-16-06
GvRng is being ported to the olpc laptop
Olpc stands for One Laptop Per Child, see the olpc website for more info about the laptop project
Work on getting GvRng suitable for the laptop is just started and involves a redesign of the GUI.
There's a screenshot available on the screenshots page.

2006-07-14
GvRng supports windows
GvRng is now also available for the windows platform.
There's not yet an installer but you can test the zip package after you've installed Python and GTK+.
A installer will be available soon.

2006-04-17
GvR is dead, long live GvRng !
GvRng, which stands for GvR Next Generation, is a redesign of the original gvr to make it easier to maintain and more stable then the old one.
From a users point of view the biggest change is that GvRng uses GTK as it's GUI and GTK Sourceview as the world and program editor.

The drawback is that GvRng is no longer Windows compatible.
Window users can use the old gvr which is based on wxPython.
There are plans to create a Windows frontend for GvRng.

2006-02-04
Added Italian language support and a lot of small fixes.

2005-11-02
GvR 1.3.4 has been released. This release adds support for wxPython 2.6.

2005-09-30
GvR 1.3.2 has been released! Mostly fixes localization bugs.

2005-05-10
GvR 1.3.1 and GvR Lessons 0.4 have been released!

2005-04-08
GvR 1.2.1 is now available in the Ubuntu Universe ("Hoary") apt repository!

2005-04-04
GvR 1.2.1 is now available in the Debian Sid apt repository!

2005-03-02
GvR 1.2.1, which fixes a bug that caused GvR to crash on some Windows 98 machines, has been posted.
GvR has now been tested and known to work on Win98/ME/2K/XP, Mac OS X, and several GNU/Linux distributions

2005-02-09
GvR 1.2 released! (along with a redesigned website!)
GvR now boasts syntax highlighting and strong internationalization support, with versions available in French, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, and Dutch!

Head on over to the download page and grab it now!