QA
QA - A simple Windows program to help you memorize
Do you need to memorize?
Are you taking a college board?
Are you overwhelmed by the six-letter acronyms of computer data structures?
Can't remember all of the attributes of HTML tags?
Is your brain full?
Do things drop out of your memory after a week?
Actually, educational theorists believe that a large percentage
of what you learn, if it is not re-enforced, does not get into
long-term memory.
QA is a program designed to help you to practice through
less-than-frustrating repetition, over a period of time, the things which
you need to memorize.
The QA program is real simple to use.
You use notepad or your favorite text-processor to create a simple file
describing questions and answers that you want to memorize:
<QUIZ>
<QUESTION>....</QUESTION>
<ANSWER>....</ANSWER>
</QUIZ>
<QUESTION> and <ANSWER> pairs are stored into the file until you want to review.
You have created a quiz!
It is that simple.
When you are ready to review, run the QA program.
QA brings up a browser for you to select your file.qa:
or can be started by selecting a qa file from your hard drive:
QA will randomly drill you from questions that
those which you specified earlier:
After you have completed the quiz, click on the Quit button
and you can see your scores:
This is a program to aid in memorization.
It randomly displays the questions to the user while tracking
how well the user does in answering the questions and eliminating questions
which have been memorized. The repetition window size is configurable.
The executable for the program is located
here . A source for
some version of the program is located
here.