Pauker for flashcards

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Pauker displaying Hebrew language flashcards

Pauker displaying Hebrew language flashcards

My classmate Bryan introduced me to a little open source project called Pauker which helps train you with flashcards. Because it’s made with Java, it’s cross-platform and I can share flashcard sets with my classmates who use Windows and Mac. Bryan sent me a couple of the sets he has made already, and the program works pretty well, even with the crazy Hebrew stuff I’m working on lately.

Simple flashcards using JQuery

Monday, December 10th, 2007

I wanted to create some flashcards for my Jesus and the Gospels class, where the final exam involves being given a large number of fill-in-the-blank questions. I also wanted to try out JQuery, a lightweight Javascript toolkit that has fascinated me for a while. The result is quite impressive for very little work.

To add items to the flashcards, you mark up text that looks like this:

How now brown cow?

So that it looks like this:

<p>How now <span class=”words”>brown</span> cow?</p>

I inlined the JQuery 1.2.1 library, wrote a tiny bit of glue to make things look good, and the result can be downloaded here: BI190 Flashcards using JQuery.