Necesity is the mother of invention. Well, that's the case
for now, but I still think it's a crock. I'm taking Spanish
and I find that I can't remember all my words. So, I'm going
to ressurect my ancient Pascal SpanishMaster program. It was
written for DOS and had it's own input technique which was
pretty dope at the time (simulated deadkeys.) Now I'm going
to reincarnate it into Spanish Master TWO POINT OH! (echo,
echo, echo) It will be written in wxWindows because I'd like
to have a Windows version and 'cause I'm always learning.
You'll soon realize that I like to learn something and then
rarely if ever use it from that point on. For example,
Motif. I can program Motif, but I dumpped it and went for
GTK. Now I'm going for wxWindows.
Anyway, more on SM2. It will save a master list of words and
let you look through it like a dictionary. It will also let
you create quiz lists in preperation of unit quizzes. The
program will (hopefully) remember which words you look up in
dictionary mode and how often you get words right in the
quiz so it can fine tune your tests. This will probably be
the most difficult part to implement after wxWidnows. I'm
also looking for a graphics designer to make a nice SM2 logo
:) For once I actually care how my program is going to
look.
I'm also getting back into Z80 assembly. I'm polishing off
my Radical Reducer (as seen on ticalc.org) for the TI83. I
wrote this like three years ago and found it to be extremely
stupid in design. :) I found a TI-Basic program that did the
same thing and going to use the algorithim used there and
plug it into my assembly program. Why? Assembly is FASTER
and it will look much nicer when you run it. So look forward
to that as well.
Wow, I'm doing so much. I just hope I don't forget to do
them in all this excitement. :)
Pues, mis amigos, ¡chao!
(you gotta
love those deadkeys)