Study tool for Physics, English, Business & German

arboroia

I'm in sixth year and have been developing a piece of software that automatically manages my study for all my subjects - as in I created flashcards for every subject and I grade myself on how well I know the answer and the computer that calculates the best time to show that piece of information to me again.

I'll thinking of releasing it public, but first I'll release a link to the cramming version - basically just access to flashcard studying without the long term intelligence [it works best over 2-6 months and the L.C. is in two weeks :eek:] and would like to have some opinions!

Have a go - it has all of the physics course in electronic flashcard format!
http://gluedstudy.com/try_physics_html/

EDIT Tue, 24th: Subjects now include Physics, Business, English and German:
http://gluedstudy.com/try_us_out/

You can also track my study using this here:
http://blog.arboroia.com/

NotExactly

That's similar to a programme called Anki. Do you have Biology done on it by any chance?

arboroia

Sorry, I'm not doing biology, but have German, English, physics, geography and business.

It uses the open source base of Anki to run it, I just modified it to work with multiple users in a web based format. The library is called libanki, but the most important bit are the large number of cards I have created.

LilMissCiara

Could you post a business link please..?!

arboroia

I just created a portal for both of the subjects - @LilMissCiara just click on the business button.

http://gluedstudy.com/try_us_out/

If anybody else would like another subject up, I'll put it up! Comment on what you think about it

arboroia

It's getting more traffic than I anticipated, so I apologise for any minor service disruptions in the next 20 minutes (While I increase capacity of the VPS).

NotExactly

arboroia wrote: »

If anybody else would like another subject up, I'll put it up! Comment on what you think about it

Thanks anyway. If anyone has Biology,Ag Science,French, Technology and Economics could they put up a link please. Thanks

Ciano35

Thanks so much, very handy especially for nuclear physics, what does the 'again' button do by the way?

arboroia

See if you were doing long term revision with a login account, it would save how you grade yourself, and then show the ones you rate yourself worse in more often, so a card rated 'Again' would come again today until you click 'Easy, Good or Hard' and then it would come again tomorrow, then 2 days after that and then 6 days - to ensure you never forget the fact.

This is just a demo of the cram mode, so in effect the 'Again' won't have much effect as it doesn't save the for your next session.

If you would like to test a full account, pop me an e-mail and I'll send you details.

I'm probably going to sell accounts to this next year for about €10 per subject per year.

arboroia

NotExactly wrote: »

Thanks anyway. If anyone has Biology,Ag Science,French, Technology and Economics could they put up a link please. Thanks

Sorry only have German, English, physics, geography and business for the moment!

LilMissCiara

arboroia wrote: »

I just created a portal for both of the subjects - @LilMissCiara just click on the business button.

http://gluedstudy.com/try_us_out/

If anybody else would like another subject up, I'll put it up! Comment on what you think about it

Thank you!

arboroia

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Thank you!

Your welcome!

I'll put up german and english tomorrow - adding the code to make it work takes up time and I have a leaving cert to study for too

GerardB

this looks REALLY handy, especially for business
well done

how long have you spent making this?
are you looking for help with it, or just feedback?

arboroia

Just feedback - I'm letting everybody on boards try it out before I prepare premium accounts - probably next year or maybe next week (what would you think of paying €3 for a account that expires after leaving cert - benefits include more personalisation, statistics, graphs, better interface etc.)?

I've been writing these cards since October 2010, and use the software for all my study, but I've been writing the software behind online version you see today since the mocks [I love writing code ]

LilMissCiara

arboroia wrote: »

Just feedback - I'm letting everybody on boards try it out before I prepare premium accounts - probably next year or maybe next week (what would you think of paying €3 for a account that expires after leaving cert - benefits include more personalisation, statistics, graphs, better interface etc.)?

I've been writing these cards since October 2010, and use the software for all my study, but I've been writing the software behind online version you see today since the mocks [I love writing code ]

That's a good idea, but maybe €5 for the first subject and €3 thereafter? Hopefully you'll make some money from it.. And maybe send flyers out to schools for promotion!

NotExactly

arboroia wrote: »

[I love writing code ]

What course do you intend on doing btw? One of my friends is doing a course with loads of code writing in it.

arboroia

NotExactly wrote: »

What course do you intend on doing btw? One of my friends is doing a course with loads of code writing in it.

I hope to do computer science in Trinity - where does your friend study?

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English and german are now up as subjects on the http://www.gluedstudy.com/try_us_out/ website - accounts for login coming this friday, and the Geography deck coming tomorrow!

NotExactly

arboroia wrote: »

I hope to do computer science in Trinity - where does your friend study?
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English and german are now up as subjects on the http://www.gluedstudy.com/try_us_out/ website - accounts for login coming this friday, and the Geography deck coming tomorrow!

He's studying engineering in UL,loves it. If ya make money out of this fair play to ya and best of luck with it!

Ciano35

NotExactly wrote: »

He's studying engineering in UL,loves it. If ya make money out of this fair play to ya and best of luck with it!

Is that engineering education or a different engineering?

NotExactly

Ciano35 wrote: »

Is that engineering education or a different engineering?

If you mean concurrent secondary level teaching then no it's not it's a different engineering.

Ciano35

No problem, thanks.

arboroia

Geography is now up on the website as well as all of the other subjects.

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@NotExactly
Didn't think there would be much programming in a straight engineering degree - any idea what programming languages he is studying?