Building a flashcard game in python in different configurations An exploration in python development by Jacob Cohen-Rosenthal
My goal is to eventually develop useful educational technology software. I'm starting with a simple flashcard game and my goal is to incrementally add layers of complexity to it. I realize that others have done much of this before, including may python hobbyists, and of course anki, and outside of python, quizlet and chegg etc. For the purpose of learning, and perhaps accidental discovery, I'm trying to think of all the implementations on my own instead of using or even reading code that others have already built. After I've built a working model I will then examine other people’s solutions and see what I can learn from them. I hope to take the idea from a simple text based version, to a UI version (learning pyqt along the way, maybe also trying pygame) to a webapp version(learning flask, html, and perhaps some javascript along the way), then perhaps also taking it to iOS (with pythonista?) and to Android (kivy?)
Desired functionality (in rough chronological order): 》》》Display card deck 》》》Add and delete items 》》》Quizzes 》》》Enter answer 》》》Multiple choice 》》》Self report 》》》Matching 》》》true/false 》》》Multitype combined quizzes 》》》Cusotomizable quizzes - can replace unwanted questions without having to regenerate whole quiz. -can add in fill in the blank questions on the fly, or custom choose/write multiple choice. 》》》Importing quizlet, anki, chegg etc. decks. Exporting to those as well 》》》Notes on card backs, web links 》》》Pictures 》》》Combining decks 》》》Sharing decks 》》》Live updating of deck contents across platforms 》》》A tool that can turn a website link, like a duolingo or quizlet page into a PythonFlashCards formatted card deck 》》》Live accessibility of decks through an API 》》》When creating cards auto suggest based on other users cards 》》》Record session results 》》》Spaced repetition (SRS) 》》》Audio output 》》》Collaborative deck creation with personalized notes 》》》Etymology features 》》》Speech recognition 》》》Handwriting recognition for cards written on an touchscreen/ipad 》》》Doodle notes 》》》Handwriting recognition to convert hand written notes into e-cards 》》》SRS forgetting curves generated based on peer data (age peer, experience peer). 》》》Scan a book and make appropriate cards from the likely important or new words (or concepts-much more difficult) 》》》Computer/phone plugin to easily add items encountered in daily life into a deck. Right click on any word in your computer in various programs, and like the current ‘define’ option, create an option to ‘create card’.
After using flashcard apps in my classroom as a teacher, and after reading reviews, I’ve come up with some improvements and ideas to existing popular flashcard/quiz apps that I’d like to try out. If you have any suggestions, please help me add to this list: 》》》Better integration/ interoperability between flashcards and learning games. If you play a flashcard game, your results and score should be added into your performance history, updating your SRS data. 》》》More convenient and user friendly onboarding (Anki’s problem) while still allowing for more features and customization (Quizlet’s problem) 》》》Easier way to have a group collaborate to quickly flashcard-erize / knowledgepoint-erize a large textbook or set of information. 》》》Way to combine the cognitive reinforcement of handwriting cards with the power of SRS and other digital flashcard functionality
First, in version 0.1, I've made a simple text based game within python that uses a dictionary built in-program.
In later versinos of this project I was inspired to create a universal flashcard format, with decentralized cloud storage. This project has been moved to https://github.com/Jewcub/Inter-Planetary-Flash-Cards