cmikavac.net

Zanzou is alive. =)

Zanzou an e-learning tool I made as my computer science master’s degree thesis project at the Faculty of electrical engineering, Osijek, Croatia. Its goal is to help people memorize kana using flashcards. Based on unsuccessful answering, Zanzou will repeat certain symbols more frequently and (depending on the chosen difficulty level) it will group and present some of the similar symbols together to make it harder to “guess the answer”. Global user success statistics are also available.

Features

• memorize hiragana and katakana using flashcards
• three difficulty levels
• three types of exercises
  • kana to roumaji
  • roumaji to kana
  • voice to kana
• customize your kana practice set
• flashcard frequency based on correct answers
• free

Thanks to

• Gerd Tentlers tooltip JavaScript lib
• Klaus Hartls jquery-cookie plugin
• Koichi from textfugu for generously providing me with a set of kana sound samples
• my mentor Goran Martinović, PhD
• and to all my friends who helped me test Zanzou and provided me with feedback

Some time ago I noticed I often fall into the habit of repeating a single song over and over – until I can’t listen to it any more that is. I have also often been wondering how much more or less do I do it compared to my friends. Curious enough to want to find out, having a few years old last.fm account, and (so it happens) being on a side-quest for finding myself a small web project to work on in my free time and learn something new, I started working on cmik.fm. Finally it’s done, I learned quite a lot in the process and it was quite a joyful experience coding it.

So, if you ever wanted to know this useless piece of information about your life (like I did :D), you could give cmik.fm a try. If you like it, perhaps show it to your friends who use last.fm.

Special thanks to:

• Gerd Tentlers tooltip JavaScript lib
• Matts PHP implementation of Last.FM API
• Klaus Hartls jquery-cookie plugin
• jQuery and Last.FM
• and to all my friends who helped me test cmik.fm and provided me with some good suggestions on what could be improved

Feel free to leave a comment with your feedback, any suggestions you might have, a bug you noticed or whatever! =)

Read more:
cmik.fm at build.last.fm + source at github