UNIVERSITY
Fine arts professor Craig Hickman shows his award-winning program Kid Pit in action
Professor’s Kid Pix wins award
jA computer maga
zine ranks Craig
Hickman's creation as
the top kids' program
By Carrie Dennett
i 4 .'ail A' ••• i‘>‘ ’ 1! '
( rai>4 Uli kman. .m assistant
professor of fine .iris, notii oil in
that Ins then I vear-old
son Hen became frustrated
w hen trying t o use t h e
Macl'am! program on the fami
ly's home computer
I noticed that for him. the
process of making the pu tore
was more important than the
product. Hickman said T.ven
when fie would print out to
make a hard copy, lie had more
fun just watching the printer
work
Hit k m <i li bega n w or k oil
what is now known as kid Ihv.
a computer paint program for
younger artists It was recently
judged lies! Children's Program
bv the editors of M.n I ser mag
a/ine
H 11 k III a n ' S son had d 11
hi.uities clicking onto the i or
rei I Mai Paint menu, or act a
denta 11v linking into another
window or program kid Pix
prevents these problems
kid Pix is also more fun Thu
program features a variety of
miiiiii! ('iii'ii1-. in 1.1 u ill n g .1
scratching sound when the Kid
Pixs pencil tool is used .ind .1
dripping sound when the p.nnl
brush is in .iction
II kids want in destroy ihi'ir
1 reatiun, llirv r.in do so l>v del
oriatmg .1 lirci fill ker on il or
hii n is hi ng 11 !« the li lac k
Hole "
Kid PlX IS user -friend U .1
mtisi lor young children and
helpful lor ad u 11 s. loo. link
in.in said
when von gel 1 HI■ vs pro
gram, it s Inn lo play -iround
with it. Hu kin.m said You
don't iv.ml to have to look ev
erything up m .in instriH thin
manual
1111 km.in said his creation
was meant lor Ins son. hut he
e\pel ted other people would
want to use it However, he did
not expert I the program to tie a
i ommeri nil hit
Ihe first Kid I’ix program
was a hlai k and white public
domain version, available lor
tree Idle second version the
one sent to Itroclertiund Soft
ware. Inc was in color but had
limited si Hid ellei Is
In a rare mow . the soltw are
i ompanv Hroderhund which
.a tT.es thousands of programs
1 rout 1 realors wanting them to
market their soltw are act opt
ed Ihe program immediately
Idle current version was re
When you get a
new program, it’s
fun to play around
with it. You don’t
want to have to
look everything up.’
Craig Hickman.
Kid Pix designer
leased in March l'W with ex
pawled spec ml cl feels created
l>v Uroderbund s sound depart
merit
The program received a 1‘1'JI
:\/jc I •nT h d i I o r' s Choi i e
Award, known as an laids, in
San I rant isc o on fan 1 J The
l.tfth judges said Kid fix "is
not just Mail's best children’s
program l! "s ,is imaginalivelv
conceived and well executed a
piet e of software .is vse could
find m unv < atogory. period
The program has ret eived
fiv e other awards, m( hiding a
British III in ational Tea hnnlogy
Aw ard and a Parents l dunce
Inundation award
itroderhund will not release
- ale' figures, hut a spokeswom
an said industry lists of the lies I
selling soltware show Kid fix
near the top in the home and
rei reational use i ategorv
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