I have started a new project called “A Fool’s House of Cards” as both an online repository of flashcards (similar to the several “flashcard exchanges” one can find online, of which my “Set Library” was a feeble and failed attempt) and the first step in getting my old Flashcard Wizard software online with its Interval Study features.
The project, as is the case with most of my projects serves multiple purposes. In order to have any chance of creating the “Open Introductions” project which I have in mind for my ChinaJapan.org site, I need to learn how to handle MySQL databases, logging in and out users, and managing data through a full site. This less ambitious project allows me to practice these skills since it will track users, which flashcard “realms” they have access to and later many more features and statistics.
It also, along with Jii-chan’s Kanji Flashcards serves as an early step towards creating an online version of my Flashcard Wizard software. While the first version will probably just read the files and not store entries from flashcard files in separate database entries, eventually, I hope to incorporate all the statistics and study features of my original software and end some of the nagging of those who wanted me to produce a PC version of my software.
Finally, it will allow me to get glossary files (which I have typed up myself or had a group of friends help with) from the IUP and IUC (and ICLP) programs online and available to current and former students of those programs in a password protected environment. I hope to demonstrate the “House of Cards” to them when I’m done and hopefully the students will find it a useful, as I did when I used them.
I’ll post the link to the site when it is in a somewhat functioning state.