Posted by robertdouglass on November 25, 2007 at 9:52pm
The CCK Flashcard module is "A CCK field that offers textfields or textareas for "Front" and "Back" (like the sides of a flashcard). Upon display the front and back can be toggled. Useful for testing your memory on things." It needs a new maintainer. Please contact me if you are interested.
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CCK Flashcard
I'd be interested in maintaining this little program.
I don't have much time to offer, but thankfully that shouldn't be affected, seeing as I have little time on hand.
I have projectwolf.co.uk which has drupal up on it presently.
Hal
CCK Flashcard
I'm interested in evolving this capability.
I've been using SuperMemo and Mnemosyne for a couple years now and have found their algorithms for scheduling the frequency of cards very effective. It's particularly good for learning vocabularies in foreign languages. The idea is to show a card at just the right time when it is almost gone from short-term memory.
SuperMemo is not open source and probably never will be, though parts of that algorithm are public now. Mnemosyne is open source but as far as I can tell there's no movement to make it into a full web application. When I began writing APIs for Drupal utilizing CCK hooks, one of the first things I thought of doing was to build a flash-card-type memorization API.
Several things I'd like to do:
- Build this algorithm into the way your module works
- Build alternate media types into it. One test implementation of this API would be to build a module for memorizing people's names (the 'front' of the 'card' has a picture, the 'back' has the name of the person). It could also include sound, movies, etc.
- Build in import/export support for CSV files and Mnemosyne config files, maybe others. I'm learning Spanish, and I've found it difficult to import Spanish/English Dictionaries into Mnemosyne. I'd like to make that easier for other people.
- Get the Mnemosyne contributors involved with this effort. They have definitely 'drunk the Kool-Aid' with regard to Open Source, but may not know about Drupal yet.
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/contributing.php
http://www.supermemo.net.pl/english.net
--Dan
Port to Drupal 6.0
I could use flashcard functionality, but I am running Drupal 6.15. I may be willing to sponsor, at least in part, a port to DR6. Anyone interested in taking this on?