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5 points by Miktor 3239 days ago
Hey guys,

http://www.amelyn.com/csvdriller/csvdriller.htm

CSV Driller is a simple webapp for drilling through information that you need to learn.

Simply paste csv information into the textarea in the middle of the page. Each line in the csv should be in the format: question,answer

It provides four random answers for the user to select for each question (one of which is the correct answer) and provides a running score, along with a final score at the end.

The advantage of this webapp, compared to other websites that offer quizzes on different subjects, is that the user can build a library of his/her own csv files, filled with the stuff he/she needs to learn, and use them with the webapp to learn a bunch of stuff specific to his/her current learning requirements. :D

I'm thinking of extending this and adding extra features, such as:

- saving previous scores and providing a list of the last x scores, so the user can see how his/her performance is improving/degrading over time - a button to reverse questions and answers in the csv text before drilling - a countdown where the user can select 5/10/20/30 seconds to answer each question - alternative answer formats other than multiple choice (e.g. type in the answer, numeric etc.) or adjust the number of multiple answers.

Any feedback or thoughts about what features people would be interested in seeing added to it is much appreciated. Please post feedback to this thread or post it to bigbadmick2000@hotmail.com.

Cheers!

Miktor

3 comments

Could you flash a "Correct" or "Incorrect" notification before moving to the next question? Having to keep an eye on the scoreboard to see if you got one right or wrong is a little distracting since there's no feedback otherwise.
Yes, pretty sure I can sort that out.
Til people still use Hotmail
great concept, looking forward to trying it out.