vocicon

Vocabulary trainer, dictionary and lexicon

Roadmap

(I) Create a build environment that builds a simple hello world app, integrating SQL and SQLite on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

(II) Start hacking.

TODO

• Determine how much character input support we get from the operating system in Windows, Linux and OSX respectively
• Create mockups for the UI
• Create database scheme and settle for a metadata layout
• Write proper TODO list
• Everything else

Outline

• Buildsys: CMake
• Language: C
• Gfx/GUI: SDL/selfbaked
• Data: SQLite

Features

Data

• letters and numbers

• words (base form, langugage)

• pronounciation of words in ipa

• word metadata (ipa, grammatical classification, example usages)

• synonyms for words in their native langugages

• word/phrase to word/phrase translations

• grammar and morphology (word types (noun, verb, adverb, pronoun, ..), conjugations, declinations, ..)

Memoization

• learn sets
• flash cards with solutions
• flash cards with input (written words and/or ipa)
• score/interval based learning
  • score-based subgrouping of learn sets
  • the more often a vocab gets answered right, the higher it's score
  • higher-scored vocabs get shown less often
  • vocabs which have not been trained for a long time have higher priority of showing up, regardless of score
  • vocabs may decrease in score if they are answered wrong too often
  • incentive system to keep learning everyday, i.e. higher score if done regularly

Input

• On-screen input of characters, esp. special chars
• language dependent keymaps
• OS hints in input boxes