On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:30:45PM +0200, keth@... wrote:
Heill Keth,

> >Arlie mentioned writing a C-routine for
> >conversion of characters, as I recall.
>
> Or conversion of files..
> Any way, someone who can easily write file conversion
> programs could (presumably) easily write such "arcade
> type" web programs -- maybe. You may be right that it
> would be more like a "gimmick" than actually very useful(?)
> But it would certainly attract attention.
> I guess I'll have to wait and hear what Arlie has to say.

It's actually a different skill set, and a harder problem.

The file translator is very simple. The sort of thing I could
write in an afternoon ... less if I already had a table of
the codes for the characters to be translated, and wasn't
trying to make it portable.

Web programming is a different skill set; I actually have no
experience with cgi or javascript, and almost none with java
... and these seem to be the obvious tools to consider.

Personally, I've been using a really low tech review/quiz method.
Paper flash cards. Take a whole bunch of index cards, write the things
you want to review on them, one per card, with question on one side
and answer on the other. Shuffle them and draw a handful. Or cycle
through your whole deck, reviewing a few every morning. So, for
example, I've got a card with "eiga conjugation" on the question side,
and the 6 present tense forms on the answer side.

The only problem is that I've got somewhat over 1000 cards now ... including
material not yet seen in the class ... review is getting to be time consuming.
(Not that I try to review all of them at one time.)

--
Arlie

(Arlie Stephens arlie@...)