Linear Programming by the Game - Computer Support of Courses

This paper describes LPro(1) - a computer program which has been developed for educational purposes. Linear programming is educated at many universities including those not focused on mathematical methods. Students are often discouraged and are afraid of their mathematical complexity. Such problem could be avoided by using computer programs for actual computation. Thus students can fully concentrate on the algorithm itself. Nowadays, there are large sort of professional-quality computer programs for solving large linear models. Although these programs are very useful in practice, none of them is suitable for educational purposes.